Locally sourced food

In the past month I have up'ed the ante on my locavore diet. Being wintertime in New York City, I am very tired of potatoes, apples, and cabbage. I must say though, Garden of Eve in Long Island produced the best butternut squash I've had all season and I will miss my winter squash come summer for sure. I roasted the squash with some GORGEOUS beets from the McCarren Park Saturday market, served with grits, free range over-easy egg and mustard greens (also from Garden of Eve.)

Last week, my eyes swelled up with tears when I saw (and quickly consumed) a hydroponic tomato from the Union Square Greenmarket. I ate it with a slice of Edamer cheese on a spelt roll from the fabulous Hawthorne Valley Farm. Eating locally never tasted so good. On Friday, I went to Ronnybrook Milk Bar in the Chelsea Market for the first time. For those of you who don't know Ronnybrook, they are a dairy farm in New York State that has sort of blown up in the inner local foodie circles. They are at several greenmarkets throughout the city, I'm a frequent buyer of their milk, yogurt, and occasional rice pudding. Anyway, I found out they have a milk bar/restaurant near my work and decided to check it out for lunch. I had a delicious rubbed pork sandwich with watercress on so soft and nutty 7-Grain bread (possibly from Amy's across the way?) The pork was from a farm in the Berkshires, not sure about the avocado aioli's sourcing but a girl needs a break!

Downs: I feel guilty about the kalamata olives, raisins, and almond butter I can't seem to give up and local protein, besides some fish, seems impossible unless I start growing my own soybeans for fermenting. And I was forced to buy "Maple Buckwheat Flakes" for my morning cereal from Arrowhead Mills when all I really wanted was the organic version of honey comb. Oh well, we can only do what we can do, no? Oh, and covered in Ronnybrook yogurt, the Buckwheat flakes aren't half bad.


"Everything about food and cooking is a metaphor for sex."-- http://100milediet.org/why-eat-local/