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Eating food grown close to home is not only tasty, but comes with great benefits for the health of your family, your local community, and the environment. Learn how and where to find local foods, how to eat locally on a tight budget, what questions to ask at the farmers' market, and how to grow your own food in small spaces. With shopping tips and simple guides to preparing what's in season, The Locavore Way makes eating locally as simple as it is delicious.
A longtime advocate of local eating, Amy Cotler is the founding director of Berkshire Grown, a food initiative that received international recognition as a model for local food advocacy. She now consults, teaches, and lectures on food and farm-to-table issues. She worked as the online food forum host for The New York Times, and her food articles have been published in numerous periodicals, including Fine Cooking, Kitchen Garden, Cook, and Orion. Her five cookbooks include Wrap It Up and Fresh From the Farm: The Massachusetts Farm to School Cookbook, which is available free online. Cotler has developed close to 1,000 recipes, including many for the revision of The Joy of Cooking. She has taught at the Institute for Culinary Education and The Culinary Institute of America, where she also researched and wrote teaching text for their professional cookbook. It's Easy To Be a Locavore!
Discover how wonderful it tastes to be a locavore. Fresh fruits and vegetables, picked at the height of their ripeness; flavorful meats from humanely raised and organically fed animals; and pungent, handcrafted cheeses – all these foods and many more are waiting to be found and savored, no matter where you live or what your budget is. Amy Cotler shares all her secrets for sourcing and using the best that your community has to offer. Welcome!
Getting Started
Step One: Shop for Local Foods
Farmers' Markets
Farm Stands and U-Pick Farms
Community Supported Agriculture
Buying Clubs
Stores of All Kinds
Step Two: Eat Simply and Seasonally
At Home with Local Foods
Open Recipes and Improvisations
Dining Out
Play with Your Produce
Step Three: Connect and Engage
Get Your Hands Dirty
Become a Local Food Advocate
Appendix
Key Events in Local Food History
Local Food and Sustainability Glossary
Resources
Index
A longtime advocate of local eating, Amy Cotler is the founding director of Berkshire Grown, a food initiative that received international recognition as a model for local food advocacy. She now consults, teaches, and lectures on food and farm-to-table issues. She worked as the online food forum host for The New York Times, and her food articles have been published in numerous periodicals, including Fine Cooking, Kitchen Garden, Cook, and Orion. Her five cookbooks include Wrap It Up and Fresh From the Farm: The Massachusetts Farm to School Cookbook, which is available free online. Cotler has developed close to 1,000 recipes, including many for the revision of The Joy of Cooking. She has taught at the Institute for Culinary Education and The Culinary Institute of America, where she also researched and wrote teaching text for their professional cookbook. It's Easy To Be a Locavore!
Discover how wonderful it tastes to be a locavore. Fresh fruits and vegetables, picked at the height of their ripeness; flavorful meats from humanely raised and organically fed animals; and pungent, handcrafted cheeses – all these foods and many more are waiting to be found and savored, no matter where you live or what your budget is. Amy Cotler shares all her secrets for sourcing and using the best that your community has to offer. Welcome!
Getting Started
Step One: Shop for Local Foods
Farmers' Markets
Farm Stands and U-Pick Farms
Community Supported Agriculture
Buying Clubs
Stores of All Kinds
Step Two: Eat Simply and Seasonally
At Home with Local Foods
Open Recipes and Improvisations
Dining Out
Play with Your Produce
Step Three: Connect and Engage
Get Your Hands Dirty
Become a Local Food Advocate
Appendix
Key Events in Local Food History
Local Food and Sustainability Glossary
Resources
Index