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In the Kitchen

Cookbooks that inspire seasonal eating

March 14, 2010

I love cookbooks. In order to keep my shelf-space under control I try to be very choosy about the ones I actually purchase and use, as opposed to hopping on the Internet to find my recipes. For eating seasonally, there are 2 cookbooks that I absolutely love and live by: Local Flavors, Cooking and Eating [...]

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Are you a locavore?

March 8, 2010

locavore — n. A person who attempts to eat only foods grown locally. A hot topic these days is eating locally — instead of eating foods that were shipped from around the world, locavores seek out the local options.  Eating local food has a number of environmental benefits, not to mention the positive act of [...]

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Remember the seasons

March 4, 2010

Eating seasonally is something Americans are largely unaware of.  You go to the grocery store and find rows and rows of fresh produce from all over the world. Strawberries, asparagus, and tomatoes are available year ’round, instead of only in the spring. While this seems normal, in the larger history of humans, this is actually [...]

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Slow down

March 2, 2010

It’s 6:00 and you’re finished with work for the day. Your children are whining and want dinner. (Well, my kids would be whining.)  You’re tired and don’t feel like thinking about food, so you pull into the drive-through of the closest fast food place and fork over cash in exchange for your dinner.  Or you [...]

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A Food R/evolution

February 28, 2010

The inspiration for starting this site comes from many places. Allowing myself to live unconsciously with regards to my health and environment, being disgusted with a dysfunctional food system, wanting to share the local abundance that Virginia has to offer, along with my concern for the health and well-being of my family and community are [...]

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