Low Mileage Food

We had a disconcerting experience this morning when we pulled up to the market: there were parking spaces in the lot. Normally, the lot is full to overflowing and most of the street parking is taken up, even when arrive late. Last week, we got there around 11:20 and that was the [...]

Psst: I’ve got a small project going on over here. We’re certainly not abandoning this blog, but we are working on what direction we want to go in. Both Jeff and I have other outlets where we write about our day to day life stuff, so we’re still working on what we [...]

Joyce and I would like to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. May this day bring you happiness and joy.

I will admit that having family around in droves (as we do around the holidays) is an excuse lately for me to evangelize about our new religion, the Eating of the Local and Organic Foods. Seriously, it is nice to have family around and be able to talk to them about some of the [...]

Up until last Thursday, I didn’t have a driver’s license, which is unusual for the area that we live in (small Southern city, lots of suburbs and other small cities connected by the highway system, rural areas close by). I gotten into a couple of nasty wrecks in quick succession, several years ago, and [...]

So, the market we go to is fairly small, and indoor, and terribly loud. We had gotten almost everything else we needed last weekend, when I wandered up to one of the many booths that had greens piled high, and said “Hi, I want salad greens. I’m not sure which pile is the [...]

We’d been bemoaning the lack of locally produced dinner sausage lately; I’d even gone so far as to check out a cookbook about sausage making (not that I’ll have time to get to it for another week). We’ve fallen into a rut lately, where we only buy from “our” farmers and forget that there [...]

Worm

Originally uploaded by lowmileagefood.

Hey foodie and gardening braintrust,
Any idea what specific insect this larvae (and his 30ish friends) would have become if we hadn’t sent him into the great hereafter? I tried identifying it online and didn’t have any success.
Laurie? Liz? Beuller? [...]