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Thursday

May132010

Local Seafood Still Available in New Orleans

Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 9:36AM

This is the line we waited in at 6pm yesterday to get into the Acme Oyster House in downtown New Orleans. For now, local seafood is still available in the area (thankfully). I've heard that crab is becoming scarce in places, and wholesale seafood prices are rising because of an offshore fishing ban around the oil spill, but local oysters, crawfish, and other seafood specialties are still on the menu.

For dinner last night, we feasted on fried oysters, seafood gumbo, jambalaya, and hush puppies. Certainly not the healthiest food, but impossible to pass up when you're in New Orleans.

-Mark

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Family Farmed Expo Starts Today in Chicago

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:04PM

Local food is on the tip of everybody's tongue in Chicago today, because the fifth annual Family Farmed Expo starts today and runs through Saturday at the UIC Forum.

Billed as "the Midwest's premier local food event," the expo is open to the public and it will feature exhibitor booths from local food producers, chef demos, and organic and local food workshops.

We'll be heading over to UIC to get in on the action this week. To learn more about the Family Farmed Expo, check out this promo video of FamilyFarmed.org President Jim Slama:

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Monday

Jan042010

What's in Store for 2010? More Local Food

Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:02PM

NOTE: A version of this post first appeared on our local sister site, The Dirt on Green.

2009 is in the books, but as we look forward to the tweens, one trend that will likely carry over from the '90s and the aughts is the increase in the buying and selling of local food. Back in October, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the number of farmers markets in the US increased by 13 percent -- one of the biggest increases in recent history. The USDA table above shows the number of farmers markets in the country over the past 15 years.

It's not just farmers markets that have increased in the past year; small, independent farms have cropped up too. Marion Nestle describes the phenomenon:

"The back-to-the land movement has loads of people buying local food, choosing foods produced under more sustainable conditions and growing their own food. The number of small farms in America increased last year for the first time in a century. Seed companies cannot keep up with the demand. It will be fun to follow what happens with this trend."

-Mark

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