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Buy Seasonal Food : Most food, from fruit to fish, has a season -a time when it is abundant and at its best. Knowledge about food's seasons was once essential to survival and became culturally ingrained over the centuries. Today, we have all but lost this accumulated wisdom, but it still matters! Buy local and seasonal to guarantee the best quality food you can get.


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.


Buy Local Food : ...but at the same time, figure out what makes sense. It is more energy efficient to raise lambs in New Zealand and ship them to the UK than to raise them in the UK, because New Zealand lamb farming is more energy efficient. It is also more energy efficient to buy produce raised in Spain, than produce that has to be grown in greenhouses in the UK. Baby steps require figuring out which things make sense and which don't.














Ruby Punch Bowl Recipe
Ruby Punch Bowl Category Alcoholic Drink Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 1/2 c Water

2 c Sugar (or less, to taste)

2 3-4 inch sticks cinnamon

2 ts Whole cloves

1/8 ts Salt

2 Bottles (750 ml) burgundy

Or other red table wine 2 c Chilled cranberry cocktail

1 l Chilled apple cider

Ice Thin lemon or lime slices In saucepan bring water, sugar, spices and salt to boil. Lower heat and simmer 10 minutes; strain-out and discard spices; cool syrup. Combine spiced syrup with wine, cranberry juice cocktail and cider. Pour into punch bowl, add ice and lemon slices. Source: Calgary Herald Dec 15/93 From the collection of K. Deck

 
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