Results tagged “locavore”

In addition to the latest birther video, Ye Olde Huffington Post has a piece today on the top cities for eating local, and--citing Cafe Flora and Art of the Table--currently Seattle ranks 5th, behind San Francisco, New Orleans, Portland, and Albuquerque. If you'd like to vote our town up (or down), be our guest. HuffPo also invites readers to participate in a mapping project by sending in photos and info of their favorite spots to get locavore grub. And in the final mention, they link to the Princeton Review's rankings of universities, in which UW was one of the fifteen schools named to their 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll.

Much as we hate to admit it, we’ve lately been taking a little break from the farmer’s markets. You see, it’s the beginning of February, and though the weather has started to point towards spring, at the farmer’s market, it’s still October of last year: cabbage, parsnips, squash and potatoes, and that’s about it. The one bright spot in all of this culinary gloom is the fabulous citrus available this time of year, but you won’t find that at the farmer’s market.