Local eating

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The Rogue Valley is a great place to eat. The group Thrive sponsors an annual Eat Local Challenge to encourage people to support local food producers. Participants in the event and anyone who loves locally produced food is welcome here.

Website: http://www.buylocalrogue.org
Location: Rogue Valley
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The Eat Local Challenge promotes the consumption of locally produced foods. This year, a host of events is planned Sept. 10-19 at restaurants, grocery stores, growers markets, farms, wineries and elsewhere, organized by Thrive, food producers and restaurants.

This group is one place to make connections and share resources, recipes and more.

The Mail Tribune is also looking for readers who will share their experiences through a roguecurrent.com blog. Food editor and blogger Sarah Lemon will blog about her experiences over at www.mailtribune.com/wholedish and feature others who are willing to give it a shot, too.

Find out more at www.mailtribune.com/eatlocal.

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Started by Anita. Last reply by Lorna MacIver Sep. 13, 2009.

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Comment by Anita on August 17, 2010 at 2:34pm: On the way back from the coast last weekend, we stopped at the Nelson Family Farm just outside Kerby. (It's the one with the "cron" signs that used to have what we called the "giant corn woman" -- sort of a supersized scarecrow attention attractor.)

Our haul included a wonderful cantaloupe that filled the whole car with a warm, spicy aroma. We had to stop and get prosciutto to go with it. Sprigs of basil fresh from the yard accented the classic combination perfectly. Awesome summer flavor that's better fresh and local. (How soon will Full Circle turn some of their piggies to prosciutto? Then it could be totally local.)

Comment by Anita on August 11, 2010 at 4:12pm: Sarah Lemon posted a blog about small-batch canning, a key step now if you want to eat local all winter. I made mixed berry jam last week with raspberries, marionberries and blueberries.

Comment by Anita on August 4, 2010 at 3:33pm: Information about this year's Eat Local Challenge is up at www.mailtribune.com/eatlocal and at www.buylocalrogue.org. A story about farm tours in today's Ala Carte introduced some hard-core local eaters.

Comment by Todd on May 25, 2010 at 9:44pm: If you love local eating take a look at this locally grown website emphasizing eating local and connecting with others on what's new in town! www.thelocaldish.com

Comment by Anita on March 15, 2010 at 5:52pm: I almost forgot to report back on the Horsepower Flour. It's great.

This weekend I made a ciabatta and some rustic little baguettes, sort of roughly following a Peter Reinhart pain l'ancienne recipe. (I am a bit of a freewheeling baker; I trust that the yeast has a will to live and it usually all works out tasty. Even a loaf that isn't technically perfect tastes good when it's fresh from the oven.)

I used whey left from a recent cheese-making experiment involving milk from Runnymede Farm, and I think it really enhanced the sweet, nutty flavor of the bread.

Comment by Anita on February 11, 2010 at 4:04pm: When locavores talk about seasonal eating, I'm sure they mean dining on what is ripe and naturally available right now. But bread that's baked around Valentine's Day counts in my book, or my blog, actually.

Comment by Sharon Anderson on February 5, 2010 at 1:36pm: In case you haven't heard, Joe Salatin, owner of Polyface Farms and a major focus of Micheal Pollan in his book, Omnivores Dilemma, will be in Medford on the 19th. Go to jclac.org for tix and info. Should be very interesting.

Comment by Anita on January 25, 2010 at 5:33pm: I bought some of the Horsepower Flour made from wheat grown at Hanley Farm at the Ashland Food Co-op. I haven't baked anything with it yet, but I'm excited to try out something this fresh and local. Plus I'm happy to support the Southern Oregon Historical Society, especially right now.

Comment by Anita on January 19, 2010 at 12:39pm: January doesn't feel like a great time to focus on local eating. Farmers' markets aren't running and most gardens are bare, but the good stuff is still out there.

This month's Oregon Healthy Living magazine features two articles on local food: One about local meat producers, and one about winter veggies available in stores now.

Comment by Anita on December 26, 2009 at 10:37am: If your holiday travels take you to the coast, don't miss the Dungeness crab. On a pre-Christmas visit to Brookings, my husband and I stopped at the port to get some fresh crab. It doesn't get any fresher than that offered direct from the boats. Bounder's is the current name of the floating crab shack on the south end of the commercial boat basin. Crab was $3.75 a pound and you can get them cooked for 50 cents more apiece.

I think getting them cooked is well worth it. I don't want to hear crabs scrabbling around in the cooler while driving on on the twisty part of Highway 199 and I don't love the way they make the kitchen smell. Besides, it's more fun to hang out in the rain and listen to fishermen crack jokes while the crabs boil in an old beer keg over a propane burner. Bounder's even has a young pelican that comes begging for scraps. (For the record, the goofy bird rejected crab gills, some other weird guts and a Cheeto before finally giving up on the humans as a food source.)