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Best Local Foods Blogs

Guide to the Best Blogs about Local Foods and Eating Locally

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There are plenty of blogs out there about local foods and eating locally - here, in no particular order, are some of the best. Don't see your favorite here? Tell us about it!

  • The Ethicurean: Chew the Right Thing is a group blog about eating good food, in the widest sense of the meaning "good." Fun, informative, timely.
  • Eat Local Challenge is a group blog about eating locally. Pithy, pretty, and inspiring.
  • Food In Jars is one girl's obsession with jars, canning, cookbooks, homemade meals and simple, good food. She's based in Philadelphia, so it follows seasons familiar to those on the East Coast and Midwest.
  • From My Kitchen Table follows the daily eating habits of a very cook Kentucky cook, with plenty of amusing anecdotes and beautiful photographs to keep things interesting.
  • Chews Wise is a great blog about food issues, food politics, organics, and other questions of interest to anyone who eats!
  • Obama Foodarama focuses on the President and First Lady's food initiatives. Informative and entertaining.
  • The Inadvertant Gardener is great reading for anyone (like me, for example) who loves fresh food but wasn't born with a green thumb. Educational and funny.
  • La Tartine Gourmande contains dispatches about eating well in the Boston area with a decidedly French twist.
  • Politics of the Plate is written by Barry Estabrook, of Gourmet magazine fame. Smart, well researched, and always interesting.

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