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Event Thu Sep 06 2007
Livin' La Vida Local
Chicago's Green City Market is offering a weeklong Localvore Challenge. The week starts Sept. 10th, so you have a few days to register. If you can make it to the market over the weekend, you can register, pick up a packet of helpful information, and a week's worth of local food. To make the challenge manageable, you can choose certain items to exempt, such as olive oil, salt and other spices, and coffee. The Localvore Challenge web site also offers a list of local food producers, and stores that carry food from the region. If trying to prepare three meals a day using only local ingredients sounds daunting, the GCM web site also offers a list of restaurants that will have locally produced menu options that week. So you can feel like a good citizen and environmentalist while sitting in an air-conditioned restaurant, sipping a cocktail and waiting for someone else to prepare your food.
