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The Eat Local Challenge: Eating Insects

Have you ever eaten insects? Is there a recipe you think I should try? Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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