Quote Originally Posted by teigyr View Post
I remember reading about something called a "100 mile diet" or maybe 300 miles or 50 miles or something. Anyway, you can eat/drink whatever is locally made and grown. It's not as easy as it sounds!

Ok, 100 miles. Here it is:

http://100milediet.org/

If I ever decided to do this, I'm for sure glad that we have wineries around here
That's relatively easy to do here. But I recall a funny encounter overheard at a farmer market in Winter.

shopper "where are the strawberries?"
farmer "they are out of season"
shopper "but Safeway has them "
farmer "they don't grow at this time of year "
shopper "but Safeway ...."
farmer "they fly them in"
shopper "so why don't you have them? "

I really like feeling in touch with the season (wooooo, new age'y music in the background), the first cherries, peaches, winter squash ....

www.slowfoodusa.org