Link to the Show / Show Notes[HOST INTRO] The local food movement is growing in popularity. Back in 2007, the Oxford English Dictionary declared “locavore” the word of the year. In 2009 and 10, the National Restaurant Association called local food “America’s No.1 restaurant trend.”
But popularity breeds polarization. A series of articles and at least one upcoming book have called the local food movement “a marketing fad and a dangerous distraction from the true impact of modern food production.” In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand listens to the growing debate over local food.
Tan: We first met in August of 2009 and it was a huge success.
Hand: Television producer and reporter Thanh Tan remembers when she started a local food dinner group here in Boise.
Tan: There was I think about 25 of us who actually showed up and my first dish for the group was Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon, which was hard work, but I used local wine, local beef, local a lot of things, so it just kind of caught on. The group decided this is really fun, let’s try to meet again next month. So we did.
Hand: Tan’s monthly locavore dinner group quickly ballooned to 40 people. That enthusiasm for the local [...]
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