“Locavores” in the San Francisco Bay Area are joining supper clubs, posting recipes on blogs and subscribing to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs to guarantee access to fresh and healthy local foods, the San Jose Mercury News reported July 7.
CSA subscribers get weekly or biweekly deliveries of locally produced farm products — sometimes randomly selected. “You just get what you get, which is pretty fun,” said San Jose resident Carol Provenzano. “Farmers are able to provide varieties of vegetables that have a shorter shelf life, so you’re getting different tastes, and the stuff is very fresh. You think you know what a strawberry tastes like and then you taste these.”
The variety of products received through CSAs compels ambitious cooks to come up with new recipes, which they share on locavore blogs. Provenzano and her friends took things a few steps further by launching a local supper club. “I was making cheese and yogurt, and canning tomatoes, and they were making jam and orange juice, and sharing with each other,” she said. “We were trying not to use stuff outside the farmers market, our box and our backyard. And we thought, ‘Let’s see if we can do a dinner.’”
The menu at the club is largely limited to products from farms within 100 miles — allowing for use of everything from sea salt to locally produced wines, although some spices need to be imported.
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