I’ve lost 2 pounds. Honestly, I don’t miss them, but I’ve wondered if this 10milediet would fatten me up or slim me down or neither. Since the only carbs that grow – to my knowledge – in my 10 miles are potatoes, perhaps it’s just …
If you can’t read it, here’s what it says: We did it! After all this talk since July 4 10 Mile Diet will start. Yahoo! Here’s the first box of veggies and stuff. We can tweak the amount (more or less) as the weeks progress. …
Wealth on a 10-mile diet turns out to be butter and cheese. We all need fat. In our food, not on our bodies. The butter I made myself (well, the cow made the fat, but I processed it) and the cheese was made by my …
As I chopped my veggies and meat for lunch, I thought we could call this 10 miles diet “relational eating”. I know everyone who raised this food. I even “know” so to speak the little sisters of the beef I’m eating. I’ve looked them in …
Oh, less than 24 hours in and I was sooooo tempted to cheat at the Transition Whidbey potluck on local eating. Everyone tried for local dishes but most would get an E for effort in my 10-mile world. Maybe that squash was local but the …
When I got home late last night, Tricia had put my first food in my fridge. Talk about service. And a loving note on my counter. I woke full of curiosty. How will this go? The first challenge out of the gate: milk for tea. …
Starting tonight and running through publication of Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, I am re-posting my daily blog from the 10-mile diet. Those of you who have subscribed to this blog will get it every morning in your Inbox. Others may find it on …
One day last month a friend sent 4 photos electronically, asking my opinion on which would best illustrate an article about the new local food movement. I kept flipping between them, wondering what was wrong. A bowl of oatmeal lit like a Vermeer. A rustic …
What is it, really, that I am up to with my current work? Don’t you ask that yourself? Where is this leading me? What has me so in its grip? Relational eating is one part – the personal, spiritual, embodied, earthy self-as-eater. Community food systems, …
The holidays are upon us. Will you gather with family for a traditional meal? Do you have any idea where the food on your holiday table is right now on its long journey from farm to fork? Most of the year we can ignore the …