Eat Local: Test Run
After spending six hours of my Saturday hearing how totally awesome (and spit-take expensive) The New School’s programs are, I ran a little reconnaissance mission through the Union Square Greenmarket, seeing as I was just a couple blocks away anyway. It being Saturday — the day when the most vendors are there — I figured the selection would be the best.
Here’s what I saw:
- potatoes
- onions
- apples
- slightly aged cabbages
- cheese
- yogurt
- eggs
- chicken
- bacon
- pork
- lamb
- honey1
- baby greens
- maple syrup
- bread
- bison
I think there’s a couple more things I can get from Whole Foods (butter comes to mind) but dang.
I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to make for dinner with that — never mind think about any other meal of the day.
This is definitely going to be harder than I thought.
- Speaking of honey, you should read my Accidental Hedonist post about the sudden disappearance of honey bees, although I’m still a little peeved that I didn’t get a decent quote from anyone I talked to about it. [↩]
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April 16th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I heard about the honey bees on NPR. That is so weird and disturbing.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Yeah, I heard it there too. It was on Science Friday sometime last month.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:44 am
the no corpses bit freaks me out.
and: there is no way we could “eat local” in Baltimore this time of year- yay for you trying.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Honestly, I’m not that sure how “local” my local food is really going to end up being.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Yeah, we could do “local” if we could do some major driving into farm territory. Our farmer’s market just doesn’t have much meat/dairy.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Really? That’s ALL the Greenmarkets seem to have: dairy, bread, meats, and eggs. I’m really hoping I can find, say, a vegetable at Whole Foods.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:14 am
We’re all vegetable, vegetable, vegetable, mushrooms, honey, spices, flowers. And fruit. They are pretty stict about who gets a booth. It is a big deal when someone new joins each year.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:51 am
thank god some real vege should be showing up next weekend. Lucy’s Greenmarket Report is a must read for anyone thinking of trying a diet like this in NYC
http://www.echonyc.com/~lwollin/greenmarket.html
Good luck Kristen!
April 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, I know. As soon as I signed up for the Eat Local Challenge, I went and checked the reports for April of last year.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:56 am