I'm getting back to my beloved blog! Its been a couple months since I last wrote, and my life has shifted in a different way of living. My eating local project started as my senior thesis project and has really impacted how I eat and the choices I make. I've finished school, and found myself in a radical new adventure of the real world has taken center stage. I had been thinking the next step would involve getting out into the world and advocating what I've learned, but I feel I'm still learning myself. Its a daily task to navigate my food choices and figuring out how to live my beliefs all on my own. No structure, no one to report to. But its also a really exciting time. Local food is coming out in all its glory. Most of the farmers markets in the city are up and running with amazing produce and options since I was going to the winter farmers market outside of the city. Its becoming quite easy to shop locally with a farmers market almost every day. After 60 days of local food ended, I went so far in the opposite direction of eating (no local food at at all) that i was having a hard time navigating how to integrate local eating into everyday life. But I finally have been figuring it out. I would say I've actually been eating a large bulk of my diet in local food. I think the key to getting these foods into my diet is figuring out what to do with them. Working on local recipes was my answer to this issue, but I myself am still figuring out how to cook everything. Its still learning. But as I learn to cook in new ways, I do get to share them with the people around me, when my friends are willing :-) So I'd say its a process, one I want to share!
Here are the markets I have been going to!
Mondays: Central square 12-6 on Bishop Richard Allen Drive (parallel to mass ave)
Tuesdays and Fridays: Copley Square 11-6 both days
Thursdays: Prudential Center on Boylston 11-6
Some upcoming markets i haven't checked out yet:
Fridays: Allston Market!! Starts tomorrow! at the intersection of North Harvard and Western Ave 3-7
Mondays and Wednesdays: City Hall Market - City Hall Plaza along Cambridge Street: 11-6
Tuesdays and thursdays: South station. Across the street from south station: 11:30 - 6
Sundays: South End/SOWA open market: Open Market on Harrison Ave 10 -4
Wednesdays: Cambridge Center, Main Street, near MBTA: 11-6
Sundays: Cambridge Charles Square Plaza: 11-3
Tuesdays: Harvard Market at the intersections of Oxford and Kirkland in Cambridge 12:30-6
Thursdays: Kendall Square - 500 Kendall St - 11-2:30
more info at http://www.massfarmersmarkets.org/
mountain of kale
local kale mountain cooked in red wine sauce with onions, bread from the farmers market and couscous
chicken with a rhubarb and mushroom glaze! Made with my own rhubarb i grew!
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