{"id":17603,"date":"2013-06-11T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=17603"},"modified":"2017-01-19T03:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T03:14:48","slug":"local-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/local-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Chefs Don\u2019t Believe in Local Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not all chefs agree about local eating.<\/strong> Certainly, not all home cooks agree about local eating either, that\u2019s why I\u2019m writing these articles. Professional cooks have access to all ingredients, local or otherwise, and have formed an opinion of the subject. My goal is to have the non-professionals empower themselves to make their own decisions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17604\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/foodship-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"foodship\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Until recently, the common belief has been that the farm to table movement is for a select few.<\/strong> The stereotype has been that if you desire fresh and local food you must be a revolutionary fighting against the establishment. But, you have to make your own decisions and ask \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/farm-to-table\/fresh-cooking\/\">What Does Farm To Table Mean For Me?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m a chef, a Certified Culinary Educator, and someone who examines food through both artistic and scientific eyes.<\/strong> I\u2019ve found there are great benefits in becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/what-are-food-mile\/fresh-cooking\/ \">locavore<\/a> and reducing your <a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/foodshed\/fresh-cooking\/\">foodshed<\/a> by finding local foods that support your community, are freshest, and taste best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are people who think local eating is na\u00efve.<\/strong> Their perspective is that a \u201csave the world\u201d mentality limits the variety of foods that are available to them. They believe that it\u2019s not a chef\u2019s job to impact the planet, only to cook good food. Anything else is a distraction from the final plate presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local eating, <a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/organic-food-benefits\/fresh-cooking\/\">organic food benefits<\/a>, and fair trade are seen as marketing terms.<\/strong> Chefs who don\u2019t subscribe to a seasonality of food believe these terms have been hijacked by the USDA and large corporations. If the words really don\u2019t mean much, how could the food be that much better?<\/p>\n<h3>Jose Andres is a chef who says it\u2019s not pragmatic<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/snagplayer.video.dp.discovery.com\/611678\/snag-it-player.htm?auto=no\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Chef Andres argues that if it\u2019s not summer where he lives, then it IS summer somewhere else.<\/strong> He doesn\u2019t understand why he can\u2019t buy the summer tomato from an ocean\u2019s width away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, there are distant products that can\u2019t be duplicated locally. <\/strong> If you live in northern climates, you\u2019re not ever going to find a local orange. If you don\u2019t live in Hawaii, you\u2019re not eating local pineapple either. Should you NEVER eat pineapple again because you don\u2019t live where they grow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Should you forgo French Champagne because you don\u2019t live in France?<\/strong> Never again will you eat parmesan cheese, kiwis, or drink coffee because they are not 100 mile products. Chef Andres wants to eat local, but he won\u2019t give up many products that can\u2019t be found anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local eating doesn\u2019t need to be the ONLY eating you do.<\/strong> There\u2019s reasonableness to this movement that allows everyone to make their own decisions. That\u2019s why the stereotype of anti-establishment hippies running the farm to table movement keeps so many people from enjoying the benefits. They believe it\u2019s all-or-nothing, but that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The key is to find the right balance that\u2019s appropriate for you and your family.<\/strong> Local food is the freshest, it helps the local farmer, lowers transportation costs and effects, but can\u2019t be the only food in your home. The question then becomes what PERCENT of your entire food source is local eating?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give me a good estimate.<\/strong> Look around your kitchen, in the fridge, in your cabinets, and leave a comment with the percentage of foods that come from within 100 miles of your home.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all chefs agree about local eating. Certainly, not all home cooks agree about local eating either, that\u2019s why I\u2019m writing these articles. Professional cooks have access to all ingredients, local or otherwise, and have formed an opinion of the subject. My goal is to have the non-professionals empower themselves to make their own decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[44],"tags":[261],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}