A bride planning a wedding reception at New York City’s famed Plaza Hotel no longer has to content herself with such prosaic selections as fish-meat-or-chicken. According to an interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times, brides can now opt for a “100-mile menu.” Author Kim Severson reports that “for as little as $72 a person,” a dinner can be crafted of ingredients from upstate New York’s fields and farms.
Exploring the phenomenon known as “lazy locavores” – “city dwellers who insist on eating food grown close to home but have no inclination to get their hands dirty,” the story also tells of a San Francisco gardener who’ll install an organic garden in your backyard, weed it every week, and harvest the bounty, leaving a box of veggies on the doorstep when he leaves.
Whether they’re driven by the desire to be trendy; the urge to avoid stratospheric food and gas costs; or simply by taste, more and more food lovers are turning to farmers markets, home gardens, organic produce delivery services, and even to “sharing” cows.
Read more about “cow pooling” in Severson’s story.
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