General kitchen advice

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.

Tomatillo Salsa (Piedmont) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

4 Lg cloves garlic, unpeeled

4 Scallions, finely chopped

1 lb Fresh, prepared, 1/4" dice

2 tb Chopped fresh cilantro

3 Chili peppers, seed & dice

2 ts Fresh lime juice

1/2 ts Salt

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Loosely wrap garlic cloves in foil and roast

for about 25 minutes, until very soft. Squeeze garlic pulp from the skins into a small bowl and mash to a paste. 2. In a medium bowl, combine all remaining ingredients. Add garlic pulp and mast to a paste. 3. In a medium bowl, combine all remaining ingredients. Add garlic pulp and stir to blend.

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