by Sara Zoë
The National Post of Canada gave four of its food writers their own Eat Local Challenge: serve a meal in which every ingredient is from within 100 miles of the authors' home. The four articles hail from St. John's, Toronto, Alberta, and Vancouver, and cover a range of food offerings (seal flipper pie, anyone?). I found good inspiration and great substitution ideas - for example, using honey mixed with tart berries as a salad dressing, or for a different kind of salad dressing, local yogurt with minced herbs (clipped from the plant on your sill, perhaps?). The drying and grinding up of seaweed to use as salt I may leave to the more dedicated. I also found the writing witty and funny, chronicling the sourcing travails of professional foodies new to the eating locally thing. And I got some hints about what sort of foods I can be looking for at this time of year, up here in the not-quite-Canada-but-close regions of the US.
