Locavore Nation

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2009

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We are taking a look at our Locavore Nation project. 15 adventurous souls took on the challenge to eat a sustainable, local diet for a year. We will weigh in with the results. Locavore novelist Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable. Miracle: A Year of Food Life joins us for a commentary on the results.

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January 17, 2009

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:34.5	Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:41.5	Our program is produced by American Public Media.
0:45.2	Well, today it's Locavore Nation.
0:47.8	We check in with the Locavore Nation volunteers.
0:51.2	They've just finished a year of eating 80% of their food from local sources. So what will
0:57.4	they be yearning for? Are they converts or are they release prisoners? Then Barbara Kingsolver,
1:03.4	author of Animal Vegetable Miracle, gives us her take on the project and she raises a question,
1:08.5	is this the moment when America could reimagine her food?
1:13.5	Well, we've got the dream of an ideal food system from a documentary filmmaker.
1:18.7	Aaron Wolfe focuses on our agricultural policies.
1:22.5	Then it's the Loven a Bowl challenge.
1:24.9	Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen and I taste test can chicken soups.
1:29.8	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:34.4	It can get to us at 800, 537, 52.
1:37.9	So let's get rolling with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:41.6	They write the Road Food column in Gourmet magazine.
1:52.6	Music Jane and Michael Stern. They write the Road Food column in Gourmet magazine. Lynn, we're going to take you to a great place in Oregon for seafood, but I think we have to confront head- on the rather strange name of this restaurant.
2:02.7	It's called Ecola Seafoods, which does not mean that this is bacteria-ridden.
2:10.5	Okay, okay.
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