City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - (Page 22) Food scares, public awareness campaigns and the media have made consumers aware of the benefits of eating locallly produced food. But how is it possible to incorporate more local food in our diet? Eat Like a LOCAVORE For centuries, people around the world ate locally. There was no alternative. Trade furnished exotic supplements to a mainly local diet. Eventually, consumers in large urban centres were being fed by an increasingly distant set of farmers. A generation ago, 22 | SPRING 2008 | citystyleandliving.com Alberta Farm Fresh Producers Association (AFFPA) dgar Cayce, the renowned American psychic healer, pronounced that eating locally is ideal. In one of his readings he stated, “use more of the products of the soil that are grown in the immediate vicinity. These are better for the body than any specific set of fruits, vegetables, grasses or what not. Shipped vegetables are never very good. ” Though Cayce gave his readings in the early twentieth century, a shift had already occurred in the production and distribution of food. The advent of pesticides, elaborate transportation networks and urbanization had led to a gradual separation between consumer and producer. e by kailash Maharaj and Shivana Maharaj this was brought to the public’s attention by the back-to-the land movement. However, the sweeping changes that this movement promised never occurred. Today, books such as the 100 Mile Diet, The Omnivores Dilemma, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, and A Food Lovers Guide to Alberta have once again popularized the idea of eating locally. Jen Maiser, one of the founders of the San Francisco-based Locavores, a group begun in 2003 to advocate eating locally describes the term locavore as, “representing people who are interested in eating local food. It started as a one hundred and fifty mile radius from our homes and different people around the nation have modified that for themselves. It is something to get people thinking about what local means.” Since the inception of the group, the term locavore has exploded in culinary circles with chefs touting the freshness and flavor of their http://citystyleandliving.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of City Style and Living - Spring 2008 City Style and Living - Spring 2008 Contents Editor's Note Behind the Cover The District Need It Want It Fusion Sweet Secret Restaurant Inspiration Eat Like a Locavore Covet Helen of Troy Prêt-à-Porter Anatomy Of Spring Fashion Trends Secret Garden Passport Bookcase Great Eats in Maui Tunisia Ombudsperson Horoscopes Final Thought City Style and Living - Spring 2008 City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - City Style and Living - Spring 2008 (Page 1) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Contents (Page 2) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Editor's Note (Page 3) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Editor's Note (Page 4) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Behind the Cover (Page 5) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Behind the Cover (Page 6) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Behind the Cover (Page 7) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 8) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 9) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 10) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 11) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 12) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - The District (Page 13) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Need It Want It (Page 14) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Need It Want It (Page 15) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Fusion (Page 16) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Sweet Secret (Page 17) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Sweet Secret (Page 18) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Restaurant Inspiration (Page 19) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Restaurant Inspiration (Page 20) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Restaurant Inspiration (Page 21) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Eat Like a Locavore (Page 22) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Eat Like a Locavore (Page 23) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Eat Like a Locavore (Page 24) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Eat Like a Locavore (Page 25) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Eat Like a Locavore (Page 26) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Covet (Page 27) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Helen of Troy (Page 28) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Prêt-à-Porter (Page 29) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Anatomy Of (Page 30) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Spring Fashion Trends (Page 31) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Spring Fashion Trends (Page 32) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Spring Fashion Trends (Page 33) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 34) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 35) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 36) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 37) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 38) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Secret Garden (Page 39) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Passport (Page 40) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Passport (Page 41) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Bookcase (Page 42) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Bookcase (Page 43) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Great Eats in Maui (Page 44) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Great Eats in Maui (Page 45) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Great Eats in Maui (Page 46) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Great Eats in Maui (Page 47) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 48) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 49) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 50) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 51) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 52) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Tunisia (Page 53) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Ombudsperson (Page 54) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Horoscopes (Page 55) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Horoscopes (Page 56) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Final Thought (Page 57) City Style and Living - Spring 2008 - Final Thought (Page 58)
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