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Earing local sounds good. I

netblogger1 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:53:16 -0600

Earing local sounds good. I am not going to cook the turkey though. It is a lot of work. So hopefully, that the turkey is raised and cooked not too far from me.

Here is a cute animated ecard for this Thanksgiving. I just wish cooking can be this easy:-)

Creating a culinary masterpiece was never this easy before - watch the cheeky ingredients collaborate for a nice surprise

http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=27

Hi, Thanks, but we are

Super Jive — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:32:32 -0600

Hi,

Thanks, but we are having so few guests this year it seems like a bad idea to go whole-hog with the turkey thing. I thought about getting one and then freezing the leftovers as soup or something, but I am going with just a breast.

I do love Theo! And we do get good tomatoes out of our yard if we do cherries and short season ones.

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Turkey Day

terriclark — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:18:12 -0600

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I love this post, as this is really the first I have heard of the eating local trend. Guess I am behind the times! At any rate enjoy your holiday, however you choose to celebrate.

Blessings,
Terri Clark

Local Turkeys

alyssaroyse — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:19:02 -0600

Are you in Seattle? I just ordered my turkey from a farm outside of Everett - the same guy that I buy my live chickens from (for eggs, not meat.) He has 4 left... He's processing them on Sunday to be picked up on Capital Hill.... If you want, email me off line (alyssa - at - JustCauseIt - dot - com) and I'll hook you up.

Everyone else, the Eat Wild (www.eatwild.com) is a great source for natural / sustainable farms ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

We try to eat as local as possible ( or reasonable.) Luckily for us, in Seattle, it's pretty easy to grow stuff all year round. Except tomatoes, there are no good local tomatoes here, ever. (And if the processing counts as local, Theo Chocolate, in Freemont, is the best chocolate I've ever had. As a bonus, they are pioneering freetrade cocoa, organic cocoa and all that good stuff. So it counts. I mean, you gotta have chocolate!)
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The Hottest Trend for Thanksgiving: Eating Local

Super Jive — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:59:27 -0600

American Thanksgiving. I love it! When I was a very broke youngster it made me happy that people were cooking for me, and also that there was no gift-giving. I didn’t have to watch my mom try to hide her cringing as she opened one of my ceramic "artworks."

Mom: Is this a hippo...or an ashtray?

Me: It’s a bouquet of flowers!

Mom: Oh. I love it.

Ah well. But now that I am an adult, I have Thanksgiving of my own, or as we call it, "Fangsgiving," because we are strong believers into incorporating more rabid attacks into every festive occasion.

Remember when Turducken was all the rage? And some people have worked the "trend" that was deep-frying turkeys into their ritual permanently. I wondered what was hot for ol’ Fangsgiving this year, and I discovered it’s all about Keepin’ It Local. Kind of makes sense, right? I assume the first Thanksgiving was about as local as they come. If those crazy Pilgrims had a pipeline to some South American bananas I’m sure they would have been chowing down on them, instead of eagle. Mmm, scavenger bird. Nom nom nom.

So what is the "Eat Local Thanksgiving" movement all about? It’s sort of an offshoot of the larger "eat local" movement. Some people choose a distance, like 100 miles, and have pledged not to buy or eat food that comes from farther away. One benefit of participating is that you are supporting your local farmers and economy. The drawback is if you live someplace cold, then...dear GOD, there’s no chocolate. How will I live without my giant chocolate turkey centerpiece, I ask you?

But I think it’s an interesting idea, and worth trying out. I have heard that the difficulty in my area (Pacific Northwest) is that there’s a shortage of local turkeys.

If you are curious, here is some more infos from my neck of the woods and elsewhere:

Strategies for keeping it local in the PNW, as an example
Seattle Tilth offers local recipes
100 Mile Diet Thanksgiving
Eat local Thanksgiving in Columbus, Ohio
Nina Smith blogs here about eating local

And while you are stuffing yourself silly with local or international foods, meaty or vegetarian, I found a great list of Thanksgiving movies—a neglected genre, in my opinion.

Finally, we must not forget that for every season, there is a macro site: LOLgrims. The image at the beginning of this post is from there. I am thankful for this. Enjoy!