The Eat Local Challenge
Monday, August 20, 2007
Eating local in Philadelphia is not hard, but could you commit to doing it for every meal for thirty days? The Locavores and Eat Local Challenge folks are sponsoring an international, month-long eat local challenge for the month of December that will specifically focus on preserving, canning, and putting food up for the Winter. Some of us have a good start on that already!
Perhaps we should have our own little challenge within a challenge at Farm to Philly! I do believe I’ll commit for the September Eat Local challenge - who’s with me? I can barely wait to get started on my extra canning!
As details come in about the rules of the challenge, I’ll post them here. If you’re interested in taking the September challenge, leave a comment for the post. I’ll do a weekly report on everyone’s progress.
Posted by Nicole on 08/20 at 06:58 PM
I’ve always counted Le Bus and Metropolitan as local for these types of challenges. Not sure if it’s correct or not, but we could set that rule for our mini-challenge! *grin*
Also, I’ve gotten Amish-made pasta at Reading Terminal...and there’s a place on the Italian Market who makes pasta. You’re out of luck on rice, unfortunately.
Rice is the reason I can’t go completely local. An Asian-American girl’s gotta have rice.
So...here’s something interesting, Yoko. I found two local places that allegedly carry locally grown rice and/or wild rice. I contacted each of them to double check that, as it seems too good to be true. If it pans out, I’ll let you know.
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I’ll give it a shot. Any suggestions for local pasta or rice? Do breads made by local bakeries (Le Bus, Metropolitan) count?