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This just in - what a great concept!

Are you familiar with Locavores? To quote, they’re a:

…group of concerned culinary adventurers who are making an effort to eat only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco for an entire month. We recognize that the choices we make about what foods we choose to eat are important politically, environmentally, economically, and healthfully. In 2005, we challenged people from the bay area (and all over the world) to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home for the month of August …MORE…

An interesting concept, no? People are applying that idea to many different communities and supporting their local farms/food growers as well. The name coined from this is the 100 mile diet. You can learn more about this idea at

• How to eat like a locavore
• The lure of the 100 mile diet
• Locavores dine on regional chow

Well, one writer at the San Francisco Chronicle took this another step further! To wit:

… Reading the recent books about “locavores” eating food produced within a specified radius for a year has truly inspired me. Not to eat locally - like all gardeners, I’ve been doing that for years. No, I’m inspired to cash in on the trend by writing my own best-selling book on the topic.

To succeed in this well-plowed literary ground, I’ll need a gimmick. No, gimmick is the wrong word. I need a fresh, original approach that will make an important contribution to the dialogue on our national food policy.

Fortunately, I have just the thing. I believe that a 100-mile diet is far too expansive. Think of the fossil fuel required to ship a green bean a hundred miles. Why drive to Sacramento just to buy a turnip? To a truly committed locavore like me, even limiting oneself to food produced within a 100-foot radius seems extravagant. I’m taking local eating to the extreme …MORE….

Gotta love that ingenuity.

Enjoy,

Staff

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