Washington Post: A Shorter Link between the Farm and the Dinner Plate

by Jen Maiser

The Washington Post this week published an article discussing the local food movement specific to the Washington DC area. (via Ethicurean)

American Flatbread in Ashburn sits a few turns off the Dulles Greenway on the cusp of burgeoning suburbia. Parked in a strip shopping center behind a McDonald's and sharing a wall with a Glory Days Grill, this is an unlikely place to find a food movement.

Customers at the new pizzeria dine on weekly specials that include poultry and pork raised free-range and greens that are freshly picked. Much of the food is organic. But the real emphasis is local.

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