Food: February 2009 Archives

By Mary Beth McCue  RD LDN CDN
Integrative Nutritionist

The thought of eating local sustainable foods can be quite daunting to many people.  So when I recommend this to my clients during the winter months, it can seem impossible to some.  But most people will find after slowly making these changes, and allowing the 20 - 30 days for them to become a life-style habit, that they are quite easy and more importantly - they feel so much healthier as a result.  

"Localvores" are people committed to eating foods grown within their local food-shed; many choose foods grown within a 100-mile radius of home; others branch out further. I suggest those living in our region to choose food choices from northeast sources; choosing those as close to home as possible.  The motivating components to making such a life-style change is that these local food advocates recognize there are huge economic, environmental, political, and health benefits to eating foods grown close to home.  It is a real "win-win" all the way around for the consumer, the local businesses and economy and the preservation of the earth as a whole.

By Stacey Morris
Contributing Writer



GLENS FALLS - It's a Friday evening and Red Fox Bookstore is in the midst of hosting what is probably one of its more fragrant book signings.   Celebrated chef, cookbook author, and restaurateur Suvir Saran is on hand not only to sign copies of "Indian Home Cooking" and "American Masala," but to encourage customers to sample the fruits of his recipe collections.


At one end of the store is a table laden with Indian and Indian-inspired dishes from his books: Tamarind-Glazed Meatloaf, Better-