This week Wednesday night is the Kick-off of the "Locavore Challenge." Check out the "Blue Devils Go Green" Blog on the campus homepage for all the particulars.
Of course, some of us think we have a great chance at winning the challenge simply based on the fact that we eat a lot more than other people, and therefore will also likely eat more local food than skinny little picky eaters.
Hmmm . . . there may be something wrong with this logic.
But, contest or not, eating locally grown or made food has its own rewards. Compare the taste of your granny's homemade pickles to any kind you can get at the store, or the taste of fresh apple juice or cider from the farmer's market to commercially made stuff, or the taste of a plump juicy tomato you pick off the vine to the kind that arrives hard as an eight ball in a carton from God-knows-where. They're not even the same species! So whatever other good things come from eating locally, one thing you can bank on is that the local, homemade, fresh stuff will reward you with tasting great.
