Not Our Local, Their Local
Friday, February 22, 2008
A pleasant side-effect of eating local food at home is that I now seek local food when I travel. If I hadn’t become more aware of “locavorism,” I may have never eaten at the Lancaster Arts Hotel during a weekend getaway or made reservations for Blue Hill in Manhattan. Most recently, we travelled to Austin, Texas where I was pleased to discover Farm to Market on South Congress Avenue. In addition to nationally-known organic brands, they are stocked with local nuts, soaps, baked goods, salsas (I particularly loved the tomatillo salsa), tortilla chips, etc.
To me, a trip anywhere is wasted if I don’t come away with a sense of the distinctness of that place or feel what it is like to live there. I am learning how indicative local food is of local “life.” So, if you’re ever in Austin (SXSW anyone?), take a trip over the river to “SoCo” and buy (Texas) local.
