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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Speckkartoffel (Potatoes with Bacon) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

150 g Raw, smoked bacon, finely

-cubed (about 5 to 6 oz) 500 g Cooked potatoes (a generous

-lb), peeled and cut into Medium slices 1 tb Lard

4 tb To 5 tb sour cream

Salt to taste Pepper to taste [In a skillet], melt the lard and briefly fry the onions and bacon. Add the sliced potatoes and saute until golden brown. Add salt and pepper to taste, and mix in the sour cream. Serves 4. From: D'SCHWAEBISCH' KUCHE' by Aegidius Kolb and Leonhard Lidel, Allgaeuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten. 1976. (Translation/Conversion: Karin Brewer) Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 8/92

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