With the locavore movement going strong, don't be surprised if more and more of your negotiations involve some kind of backyard conveyance.
The graft of celebrated youngish chef to ambitious hotel restaurant seems to have taken much better at Fera at Claridge's, where Simon Rogan serves a tasting menu brimming
with locavore vocab quizzes such as lovage (an herb from the parsley family) and hogget (a lamb slaughtered at between 12 and 18 months).
June - 10 Trident Bookstore, Boston, MA 7:00 to 9:00 PM A chat about ancient grains
with locavore chef JJ Gonson, with tasting samples
The main reason for sticking
with the locavores is that the local food being celebrated is often a pseudonym for sustainably raised foods — and those foods will be the ones produced without fertilizers, grown without destroying precious wetlands or rainforests, and with animals raised on pasture rather than in confinement.
Not exact matches
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Revered for masterfully «blending the Bohemian and artistic free spirited left bank of Paris
with the roots and tradition of the rural areas of France» and for using top - quality
locavore ingredients, at Bleu Bohème Irvine brings to bear a combination of his experiences growing up in both France and Montreal, Quebec City,
with a menu reflecting both traditional and seasonal bistro food as well as country classics.
In addition to his
locavore philosophy, Rucker's affinity for whole animal butchery and charcuterie will make their mark on the restaurant's menu
with plans to offer everything from fermented salamis and air - cured hams by the first of the year.
I'm tired of people thinking Kansas City is a rural, podunk little cowtown, when in fact it's an urban metropolis of over 2 million people
with thriving communities of vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, and
locavores.
Throngs of AI - equipped smart - device apps are available for suggestions, streamlined reservation bookings and other assists like on - demand intel on that boutique wine label or
locavore food ingredient you're not familiar
with.
Whatever the impetus,
locavores are dining out in droves and, happily, there's a growing number of restaurants catering to guests
with this specialized mindset.
«
Locavores» hope to avoid the carbon emissions and energy consumption that come
with transporting food.
I'm in Detroit to judge a national student cooking contest — Cooking Up Change — and sitting on the panel
with me is Tony Geraci, the famed
locavore food services director for schools in Baltimore.
It's decorated
with tractors and other farm equipment to emphasize its commitment to
locavore eating.
Unlike veganism or the Atkins diet, which exclude certain food groups,
locavores are concerned
with supporting local agriculture and reducing their carbon footprint by purchasing goods produced within a certain square mileage.
The name also speaks to our own present - day
locavore movement,
with farmers markets, food co-ops and farm to table ever more visible and popular.
Co-written
with her husband, Stephen L. Hopp, and her daughter, Camille Kingsolver, this book details her family's experiences during the year they decided to become
locavores, trying to obtain their food locally, either from their own garden or farms close by, and thus eat seasonally.
The
locavore movement is thriving here, thanks in part to a year - round growing season that inspires creative chefs to work their magic
with locally - grown produce (you'll spy them prowling the farmers» markets, loading up their baskets and carts, and chatting
with farmers).
As she mentioned, «the restaurants, while paying homage to their Gallic counterparts, lean towards a
locavore - oriented cuisine
with none of the formality of classical European dining.»
5:30 p.m. Eat and Drink at Swift Street Courtyard Once a Brussels sprouts packaging plant, this two - acre complex on the city's west side provides one - stop shopping for
locavores,
with a French bakery, butchery, microbrewery, boutiques and clothing outfitters for men and women, and other retail enterprises sharing a single space.
The local food movement, eating local, being on the «100 mile diet» or being a
locavore are all synonymous
with local food, whose consumption has risen to prominence as an
Second, it did not equate local
with seasonal — something most of us «
locavores» do.
My general sympathies may lie
with libertarians, but I don't want to be like the preachy
locavore who reaches for the imported Scotch or the pious enviro who drives his Prius back along a freeway to his metropolis after a weekend at his fussily organic country farm.
Then you would call yourself a real
locavore, a foodie in the truest sense, who understands the entire life cycle of a vegetable and has interacted
with it every step of the way.
Michelle Obama may have won the hearts of
locavores everywhere
with her expansion of the White House organic garden, her campaign against obesity, and even bringing bees into the White
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur (featured in the recent Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit) has taken the
locavore concept to a practical level
with his Local River exhibit at Artists Space in Manhattan.
But to all the vegans,
locavores, back - to - the - landers and buy - nothing advocates getting on
with living their lives, and who have faced the mockery of their peers, I apologize if I tarred you all
with the same brush.
While I don't deny that the researchers reveal an important side to the home - cooking debate that is raging in North America right now, fueled by passionately idealistic food writers and
locavores on one side and pushed back by low - income families, Big Ag, and the processed food industry on the other side, the basic argument that «home cooking isn't for everyone» just doesn't sit well
with me.