Locavore Nation Kicks Off With Minneapolis Participant
My favorite food porn show The Splendid Table recently debuted a new program they’re calling Locavore Nation.
Locavore Nation is a year-long effort to see what it takes to live by a regionally based diet.
Join us as 15 individuals from around the country share their experiences as they try to get 80 percent of their food from local, organic, seasonal sources and then incorporate it into tasty, healthy meals.
Participants are divvied up by region. They blog about their experiences (you can subscribe to the blogs by region) and every week some of them check in on-air with host Lynne Rosetto-Kasper. One of the Central Region bloggers is Sareen Dunleavy-Keenan from Minneapolis. She sounds experienced at this whole locavore thing.
I met my husband in Japan where I became accustomed to eating season appropriate foods with the place of origin clearly designated. The importance of place and seasonality has influenced our cooking and eating since we returned to the United States…
We came to believe that buying food from people we met face to face was a way to safely feed our family. We started slowly with a dozen eggs and quart of milk and have since sourced most of our meat and poultry locally.
There are people that can take on this challenge without craving a pineapple or chocolate, or any of the other numerous things that aren’t going to grow in Minnesota. But we do our best.
She’s making me want to make my own root beer.
Follow along as I’m sure she’s got great advice on how to be a locavore around here. If you’ve got hot tips or can relate, show her some love and leave her some comments, too.
(My favorite part of Splendid Table is how Lynne Rosetto-Kasper sounds like she’s totally flirting with everyone and everything around her.)
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Interesting project. It’s inconvenient that they’ve chosen to lump all the so-called Central Region bloggers together. That’s the only RSS feed I could add to my reader. I’m in Minnesota; the locavore experience in Mississippi just isn’t interesting to me.
I agree, I had hoped they’d have individual blogger feeds. As it was, I couldn’t find a feed link, I just stuck the address of the Central Region blog page into Google Reader to see what would happen.
They probably want to keep it simple, but there are certainly different issues that are very dependent on climate. North/Central/South almost would have made more sense.
You called it, Erica, we did want to keep it simple and active.
That said, the call for individual RSS feeds is certainly on my radar. As our volunteer bloggers become more recognized I think that will be of even higher interest, so we’ll see if I can move it off my radar and into reality.
BTW, her root beer float entry nearly sent me to Northern Brewer’s too…that’s really good or really bad (my dentist is somewhere, nodding) depending on how you look at it.
-Julia Schrenkler
Interactive Producer
American Public Media
Minnesota Public Radio
p.s. but more of a "psst" Following the gardening zones would have been another way to roll it out…logging that too.
The folks at Northern Brewer are awesome. The beginnings of my homebrewing were well supported by them. I’ve moved on from (er, gave up on) the beer, but I was intrigued by the wine, pop, and root beer options. I had no idea!
P.S. Thanks to Julia for the tip.