Eating locally grows new roots-- StL Post-Dispatch

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/FE96AFD73FCF759F862573F300111539?OpenDocument

Local Food, is it always best?

Check out is article. It says local food is not necessarily better for the environment than food that's traveled thousands of miles. What do you think?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/opinion/edmcwilliams.php

America's only cuisine?

"So many great souls have passed off the scene. The world has changed. We are now faced with picking up the pieces and trying to put them into shape, document them so the present-day young generation can see what southern food was like. The foundation on which it rested was pure ingredients, open-pollinated seed--planted and replanted for generations--natural fertilizers. We grew the seeds of what we ate, we worked with love and care."
-from Edna Lewis' essay about southern food featured in Gourmet magazine's Januray issue

Before you leave for Thanksgiving

Here's an article about eating local vs. eating organic. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245,00.html
The same problem is discussed extensively in Omnivore's Dilemma.

In the article, there's a link to a search for small farms and Community Supported Agriculture (csa) programs. You can pay a certain amount per month and receive seasonal produce from a local farm. I know people that participate in it (on the consumer side, sadly not the farmer side). Coo.
http://www.localharvest.org/

There's an article about getting fish in St. Louis restaurants in Sauce magazine. Apparently there is a debate about freezing fish or not freezing fish. Sauce is super cool, you should check it out. It has very yummy looking recipes and articles about local food businesses.
http://www.saucemagazine.com/
Copies are free, you should pick one up somewhere!

Sorry for the long-ish post. Have a great break.