local food http://www.npr.org local food en Copyright 2013 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:40:00 -0400 http://media.npr.org/images/npr_news_123x20.gif local food http://www.npr.org Hold The Hot Dog: National Park Visitors Can Feast On Bison Burgers If a family vacation to Yellowstone or the Grand Tetons makes you fear for your waistline — or for your palate — there's good news: The National Park Service is revamping its menus to offer more healthful, local and fancier fare. How does a jumbo lump crab cake or almond-baked chicken sound to you? Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:40:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/07/189270752/hold-the-hot-dog-national-park-visitors-can-feast-on-bison-burgers?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/07/189270752/hold-the-hot-dog-national-park-visitors-can-feast-on-bison-burgers?ft=1&f=145465914 If a family vacation to Yellowstone or the Grand Tetons makes you fear for your waistline — or for your palate — there's good news: The National Park Service is revamping its menus to offer more healthful, local and fancier fare. How does a jumbo lump crab cake or almond-baked chicken sound to you?

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]]> Oprah Winfrey's Latest Venture Is Farming In Hawaii After Oprah Winfrey's friend and health adviser learned that 90 percent of the food on Maui is flown or shipped in from outside, he convinced her to turn a portion of her estate on the island into a farm. Winfrey is giving away the food she's now growing on 16 acres of land, but it may soon be for sale. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:42:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/23/186287608/oprah-winfreys-latest-venture-is-farming-in-hawaii?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/23/186287608/oprah-winfreys-latest-venture-is-farming-in-hawaii?ft=1&f=145465914 After Oprah Winfrey's friend and health adviser learned that 90 percent of the food on Maui is flown or shipped in from outside, he convinced her to turn a portion of her estate on the island into a farm. Winfrey is giving away the food she's now growing on 16 acres of land, but it may soon be for sale.

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]]> Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Spreaders Of Salmonella Backyard chickens have become a hot trend, loved as a source of healthy local food and fluffy wonderfulness. But backyard birds have also sparked outbreaks of salmonella, the CDC warns. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:59:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/24/175057536/backyard-chickens-cute-trendy-spreaders-of-salmonella?ft=1&f=145465914 Backyard chickens have become a hot trend, loved as a source of healthy local food and fluffy wonderfulness. But backyard birds have also sparked outbreaks of salmonella, the CDC warns.

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]]> Startup Wants To Redefine How Local Foods Get To Your Door Demand for local foods is growing, but in many places, there still aren't efficient networks for getting them to consumers. A San Francisco startup called Good Eggs is trying out a new model: It's acting as the middleman, letting customers order from lots of different local producers and then delivering straight to their homes. Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:25:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/06/173635185/startup-wants-to-redefine-how-local-foods-get-to-your-door?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/06/173635185/startup-wants-to-redefine-how-local-foods-get-to-your-door?ft=1&f=145465914 Demand for local foods is growing, but in many places, there still aren't efficient networks for getting them to consumers. A San Francisco startup called Good Eggs is trying out a new model: It's acting as the middleman, letting customers order from lots of different local producers and then delivering straight to their homes.

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]]> Quinoa Craze Inspires North America To Start Growing Its Own A North American quinoa boom may be just over the horizon, plant breeders say, as the Rocky Mountains, much of Canada, and the Pacific Northwest all have potential as production regions. Right now, almost all of the world's supply of the ancient superfood comes from a few suitable growing places in South America. Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:33:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/29/166155875/quinoa-craze-inspires-north-america-to-start-growing-its-own?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/29/166155875/quinoa-craze-inspires-north-america-to-start-growing-its-own?ft=1&f=145465914 A North American quinoa boom may be just over the horizon, plant breeders say, as the Rocky Mountains, much of Canada, and the Pacific Northwest all have potential as production regions. Right now, almost all of the world's supply of the ancient superfood comes from a few suitable growing places in South America.

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]]> The Cost Of Saving Lives With Local Peanuts In Haiti Fortified peanut paste saves lives in Haiti and other places where malnutrition is a problem, but producing it locally costs more than importing it from faraway factories in Europe because of labor and other costs. Still, feeding programs are willing to pay a little more, for now. Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:25:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/04/161875989/the-cost-of-saving-lives-with-local-peanuts-in-haiti?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/04/161875989/the-cost-of-saving-lives-with-local-peanuts-in-haiti?ft=1&f=145465914 Fortified peanut paste saves lives in Haiti and other places where malnutrition is a problem, but producing it locally costs more than importing it from faraway factories in Europe because of labor and other costs. Still, feeding programs are willing to pay a little more, for now.

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]]> Small-Scale Slaughterhouses Aim To Put The 'Local' Back In Local Meat Some producers of "local" meat have had little choice but to ship their products hundreds of miles away to process, and then ship it back for sale. So some small producers are banding together to build slaughterhouses closer to home. Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:11:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/04/153511889/small-scale-slaughterhouses-aim-to-put-the-local-back-in-local-meat?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/04/153511889/small-scale-slaughterhouses-aim-to-put-the-local-back-in-local-meat?ft=1&f=145465914 Some producers of "local" meat have had little choice but to ship their products hundreds of miles away to process, and then ship it back for sale. So some small producers are banding together to build slaughterhouses closer to home.

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]]> At The Community Garden, It's Community That's The Hard Part In cities across the country, most community gardens are divided up into individual plots. It means if some of your neighbors start shirking their responsibilities, it's not really your problem. But there are also still a lot of people doing communal-style gardens. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:44:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/20/148999066/at-the-community-garden-its-community-thats-the-hard-part?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/20/148999066/at-the-community-garden-its-community-thats-the-hard-part?ft=1&f=145465914 In cities across the country, most community gardens are divided up into individual plots. It means if some of your neighbors start shirking their responsibilities, it's not really your problem. But there are also still a lot of people doing communal-style gardens.

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]]> Hey Locavores, Are You Creating Jobs? Obama appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say grants and loans supported by its Know Your Farmer initiative are a win-win that create new jobs and more locally produced food. Critics say the program serves the foodie elite and urban locavores at the expense of conventional farmers in rural America. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:01:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/29/147647643/hey-locavores-are-you-creating-jobs?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/29/147647643/hey-locavores-are-you-creating-jobs?ft=1&f=145465914 Obama appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say grants and loans supported by its Know Your Farmer initiative are a win-win that create new jobs and more locally produced food. Critics say the program serves the foodie elite and urban locavores at the expense of conventional farmers in rural America.

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]]> Chow Under Mao: Surviving China's Cultural Revolution On Local Food Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution may not have been China's best culinary moment in history. But Chinese journalist Sasha Gong, in a new book, revives the simple recipes of her adolescence in China that helped her and her family survive a miserable time. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:39:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/19/145456950/surviving-chinas-cultural-revolution-on-seasonal-local-food?ft=1&f=145465914 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/19/145456950/surviving-chinas-cultural-revolution-on-seasonal-local-food?ft=1&f=145465914 Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution may not have been China's best culinary moment in history. But Chinese journalist Sasha Gong, in a new book, revives the simple recipes of her adolescence in China that helped her and her family survive a miserable time.

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