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Our friend, Fan Watkinson, has spent over a year as part of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston (SBN) planning a Local Food Festival to be held on the Boston Waterfront highlighting local farms and businesses related to local food.
Today was the day and it couldn't have been a nicer one to be out on Fort Point Channel in front of the Children's Museum aside the glistening water of Boston Harbor. We wandered around sampling all we could find; edamame hummus, bison burgers, indian food, Tazo chocolate (salt and almond my favorite), bruscetta topped with fresh tomato, olive oil and basil and chugging down pumpkin and ginger root beer. No need for dinner tonight! It was great to see the event so well attended and vendors who had come from all over New England.
Great work Fan and SBN! We look forward to this becoming an annual event. I will choose products by these companies when I have a choice, doing my part to support local agriculture and business.
(Thanks also to Peter for the warm welcome and directing us to those amazing bison burgers!)
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Hey, Barb...now that sounds like fun!
I bet you got lots of new ideas too.
Remember when people said "organic"...they raised their eyebrows and sneered....sort of like..."well, I guess we can't do anything without computers...."!
Plus ca change, plus ...etc.
Thank you...
you inspire and remind" to think globally and eat locally" love the chugging ginger beer and not needing to cook dinner, always a good thing! what a fall weekend, the photos even give that feel of fall light.
I love the late afternoon light in those photos... I can almost feel the breeze on my face and hear the sounds of the festival.
It sounds like a great time! What did they have at the Vermont Smoke and Cure stand?
Hi John, yes, I was elbowing my way into that Vermont smoke and cure stand toothpick in hand. the samples were amazing...sausage, bacon, ham, all kinds of smokey flavors. delicious! Now that I think of it, I could probably mail order from them! So could you, except that wouldn't come under the "local" goal, you being in Hong Kong!
Yes, that's true. FEDEX would definitely cause an outsized carbon footprint. But then again, so does the smoking itself.
Actually, almost all of the good western food has to be imported into Hong Kong, from beef to cereal it all comes in from somewhere else on account of there being no agriculture here!
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