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'Locavores' Dine on Regional Chow

Wired News has an article on Locavores - culinarilly adventurous souls who might host a potluck where every ingredient of every dish must have been grown and processed within a 100-mile radius of their house.

The 100-mile diet is perhaps the quickest and cleverest way to build awareness of food miles, and the pleasures and challenges of local "foodsheds." In just one traditional Thanksgiving dessert, easily assembled at any supermarket, pecans from Georgia fill a pie shell made with Oregon wheat and Wisconsin butter, with corn syrup from Iowa, sugar from Florida, bourbon from Kentucky. If you're eating it in New York, that adds up to some 6,000 miles for one pie -- 14,000 if you splash in some Madagascar vanilla.

Has anyone given this a try in Ojai?

Posted by Tyler Suchman on November 27, 2006 01:56 PM | | | 'Locavores' Dine on Regional Chow

Comments (2)

Just say the word and I'll bring the scrambled eggs!

Comment #1 Posted by: Lisa Snider | November 27, 2006 06:15 PM

Sounds good, Lisa -

I assume you can also bring some locally churned butter. If Atascadero was a little closer (163mi.), we could get some great organic sheep cheese.

We might have a hard time finding local bread, unless a local baker has a local source for flour and yeast.

We have local pepper trees - is there perhaps a local sea salt provider?

We'll have a feast of onions, potatoes, garlic, spinach, pico de gallo, herbs, honey, blood orange, pixie tangerine and pomegranate juices - but maybe not corn tortillas.

Comment #2 Posted by: Tyler | November 27, 2006 10:18 PM

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