About a year ago, Kathryn Rem, editor of the State Journal-Register's food section, wrote an article about this blog and our plans to become locavores. She called the other day to find out how the year had gone so that she could write a follow-up article. I think the new article will run in tomorrow's edition of the paper, so I'm posting this as a "Welcome to my blog!"
As I wrote last year, if you haven't read my blog before, welcome! If you enter your email address in that box on the right and click the "Subscribe" button, you'll receive an automatic email notification every time I post something. (No, I won't spam you. I'm busy enough without coming up with more things to do with my time!) Of course, if you use a feed reader (such as Google Reader), you can subscribe there as well.
This blog began as out outgrowth of another blog of mine, Talking to Myself Again. Over there, I just blog about things happening in the life of our family. Over time, more and more of the entries I posted there were about the latest goodies we bought at the farmer's market or received from our CSA membership. (CSA = community-supported agriculture.) It occurred to me that some of my friends might not be nearly as interested in this stuff as I was. :-) So I created this blog, copying from there the relevant entries.
The earliest one, from December 2007, was a Christmas recap that included this paragraph:
I also quickly devoured one of the books, "Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally", by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. This is one of those books that I have the urge to buy a dozen of and give them to all my friends. I plan on talking about it more later. At length. Be prepared.
What an understatement that turned out to be!
As I did last year, I plan on blogging here about what we've been eating, local food sources that we've found, what we're still searching for, etc. However, it certainly won't be just a food diary! (How boring would that be to read!) To give you an idea of what to expect, here are some entries you might want to read. (These tend to be longer entries. Most of the stuff I post is much shorter. Honest!)
- 1/10/2008 - The 100-Mile Diet
- 1/27/2008 - "King Corn" and Community-Supported Agriculture
- 4/14/2008 - Eggcellent Adventure
- 6/17/2008 - Eggs with Character (Plus Free Chicken Poop)
- 6/28/2008 - Photos from First Evening Farmer's Market
- 9/11/2008 - Return to the Illinois Products Farmers' Market
- 10/10/2008 - Michael Pollan writes to the next Farmer in Chief
- 1/7/2009 - Review: The $64 Tomato, by William Alexander
- 5/15/2009 - Post #100 - Square Foot Garden Beds are Ready!
- 5/27/2009 - Day 4 - Yes, We Have No Strawberries
- 7/6/2009 - My Locavore Weight Loss Plan
- 7/12/2009 - Today's Meals
- 7/24/2009 - Fresh Produce - Use It or Lose It
- 8/4/2009 - Faux Local
- 8/6/2009 - What's Cooking? Not Us!
- 8/8/2009 - Freezing Sweetcorn
- 8/26/2009 - Homemade Pizza!
- 3/18/2010 - So...
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