Tag Archives: locavore
The Eat Local Challenge: Eating Insects
Have you ever eaten insects? Is there a recipe you think I should try? Continue reading
Crickets in the Kitchen
Look what just arrived in the mail. 1,000 live crickets! At least that’s what I ordered from a local Louisiana farm. I did not open the shoebox size box to count. To the horror of my husband, I just threw … Continue reading
How To Eat Local While Traveling for Thanksgiving
Here are my updated tips on How to Eat Local While Traveling just in time for Thanksgiving. Continue reading
How to Eat Local While Traveling
“So, I gotta ask,” my friend Lindsay said when I dropped off my dog at her house last night, “how are you going to eat local when you are going to Texas?” Continue reading
How To Eat Local While Traveling
“So, I gotta ask,” my friend Lindsay said when I dropped off my dog at her house last night, “how are you going to eat local when you are going to Texas?”
That was the same question Rob and I have been asking ourselves when, after signing up for the Eat Local Challenge, we realized we’d be out of the 200 mile radius for nearly a week. Continue reading
How I Failed the Eat Local Challenge (and what I learned from it)
It’s only day nine and I am already admitting defeat in the New Orleans Locavores’ Eat Local Challenge. Continue reading
From the Field
Despite being in a Prius, there is very little about a roadtrip that is environmentally friendly. “Travel Plazas” in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana don’t even have recycling bins! What they do have is tolls and corn. It’s strange that a … Continue reading
The Surprise Saviors of Smith Creamery
Yesterday, I wrote about how neighbors might be the most likely people to help you during an emergency, and today I get to give an example.
That makes me happy. Continue reading
A Royal Locavore Wedding
After the spring of Will and Kate, most people think royal weddings are royal pains. And normally I would agree.
But this one is different. Continue reading
My Month as a Locavore: How I Changed, What I Missed, and Why I May Never Do It Again
First off, let me be honest. I was not a locavore for an entire month. I actually failed in the very first week of the Eat Local Challenge because eating local is not easy. It means shopping several times a week, … Continue reading
