Food tips

One of the best elements of travelling is sampling local delicacies, so please don't order a burger and chips when you are in India - not only is the meat likely to be of a poor quality (sometimes so poor that it will make you sick), but you are turning down some of the most wonderful food in the world - and possibly offending your hosts.

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Baked Grapefruit Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

2 md Grapefruit

4 t Dark brown sugar

2 t Butter or margarine

4 Maraschino cherries

1. Cut each grapefruit in half crosswise. Remove any pits and cut around

each section with a sharp knife. 2. Sprinkle each grapefruit with 1 teaspoon sugar.

3. Dot each half with 1/2 teaspoon of butter. Place grapefruit halves on a

paper plate. 4. Heat, uncovered, in Microwave Oven 4 minutes.

5. Garnish each half with a maraschino cherry.

6. Serve hot.

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