Entries tagged with 'locavores'
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Epicurious has created a handy, interactive map of seasonal produce by state. Select a month, hover over a state, and a list of in-season ingredients is displayed with links to the ingredient descriptions and recipes....
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And the question is, "What is special about the food eaten by a 'locavore'?" Serious Eaters, you've been pressed. You have seven seconds to click through the jump. [Tip o' the hat to eatorama]...
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Last night's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit featured Robin Williams playing a deranged character whose alibi is that he wasn't at a burger restaurant because he's a locavore. Bonus clip from the same episode, with Robin Williams and Mo Rocca leading a pillow fight in Bryant Park. Both videos, after the jump....
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Brian Halweil of Edible Communities and editor of Edible East End checks with ... a word or two. Local squash at New York City's Union Square Greenmarket. You may not have heard that "locavore"—a person who feeds mostly on food grown or caught or gathered nearby—was named word of 2007 by the good people at the New Oxford American Dictionary. But at a time when many Americans have already capitulated on diet-related resolutions—both Weight Watchers and Special K retained major billboards in Times Square as the ball dropped—there is no doubt that our eating habits have turned a corner. It was just three years ago that Jessica Prentice, a San Francisco woman, decided to eat only food originating within 100...
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Image from iStockphoto.com A terrific, provocative op-ed piece in the New York Times today argues that hunters were locavores before anyone had coined the term. Writer Steven Rinella, author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, is an avid hunter and, apparently, a serious environmentalist as well: While many people will never give up their opposition to killing Bambi, others may change their minds when they realize that destroying a deer's reproductive abilities or relying on the automobile for population control is really no less wasteful than tossing fresh produce into a landfill....Hunters need to push a new public image based on deeper traditions: we are stewards of the land, hunting on ground that we know and love, collecting...
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I had to laugh when I saw the piece in the business section of the New York Times about retired cop turned pitmaster Lou Elrose (Big Lou to his friends) because the writer was actually talking about pitmaster in New York being a legitimate profession in Gotham with unlimited growth opportunities. Lou was the associate pitmaster at Hill Country, and he is now going to be the pitmaster for Steve Hanson's new barbecue joint Wildwood Barbecue, opening on Park Avenue South in New York this coming March. A few years ago we would never have seen pitmaster, New York, and profession in the same article. What are we going to see next, NYU offering a doctorate in barbeculogy?...
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If you're a stickler for grammar, the phrases "eat local," "buy local," "shop local," etc., no doubt grate on your ears. They should, of course, use the adverb "locally." Language Log takes a look at these neologisms and makes a case for their use....
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Yesterday the Washington Post ran an interesting article by Barbara Kingsolver, author of this year's locavore manifesto Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, about some of the hidden costs of industrial, centralized agriculture. The Blessings of Dirt takes to task the claim that technological breakthroughs in farming allow for the possibility that "one farmer with the right tools and chemicals could feed hundreds, freeing the rest of us for cleaner work."...
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You may have seen it in New York magazine or linked to on other sites—that guy in Brooklyn who built a "farm" in his backyard in an attempt to eat only what he raised for the month of August. Blogger Cathy Erway certainly did and has an insightful take on Manny Howard's "eating local" experiment. She worries that it does more harm than good for the locavore movement....
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Move over, Barbara Kingsolver, she of the best-selling book about eating local for a year. This weekend I took the local challenge, at least for one dinner. But I may have screwed up, so I need a collective ruling from the Serious Eats community. Have mercy, and please show some compassion. On Saturday, I cooked my wife what I thought was a locavore's delight: great, bicolor corn from Locust Grove Farm in the Hudson River Valley that was sweet and corny rather than just stabbingly sweet; red heirloom tomatoes from Locust Grove, alternating on the plate with stunning yellow tomatoes from Yuno Farm in Bordentown, New Jersey; and excellent sweet Italian turkey sausage from DiPaola Poultry Farm, from the southern...
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