Eat Locally but...

I'm really very much in favor of the "local food movement"...eat food that's produced locally, so i'm supporting my local farmers and not buying food that's been shipped across the country or around the world, out of season, and consuming oodles of fuel in transportation costs. On the other hand...there are some gems of local goods that ship well, and need to be sold to a larger market than is available locally. Someone on the local e-bulletin board posted a link to this cool article in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/dining/03gift.html about "thrifty treats" to mail order. I'm so pleased that Red Truck Bakery (http://redtruckbakery.com/) is included, because he's a local baker who makes wonderful stuff, including some of the world's best challah. I think it's funny that they mention his stollen, because i stopped off at e-Cow http://www.epicuriouscow.com/ on Sunday night on the way home from a concert at Loren Maazel's beautiful place out (waaaaay out) in the country http://www.chateauville.org/ ...and they carry a lot of Red Truck Bakery's goodies, but were out of almost everything, except one stollen. So i stole it...*g*...no, i bought it. And it's delicious!