December 8th 2009
‘Terra Madre’ Day will be celebrated for the very first time on December 10, 2009.
To mark this occasion, you are invited to organize an activity that encourages and supports local food products. Even as I write this, more than 800 events are already being planned in more than 100 countries.
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October 7th 2009
Do you know where your food comes from? A recent study indicates that the products that make up a typical North American meal travel an average of 2,400 km before winding up on our tables.
And yet, we have the opportunity to eat locally all year long.
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September 26th 2009
Originally published in the Journal de Montréal on September 26, 2009.
At least something good came out of all the rain that fell this past July: the apple harvest is the best of the last 13 years.
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September 6th 2009
Originally published in the Journal de Montréal on September 5, 2009.
By the end of the 19th century and until the 1930s, Quebec was well-known for it’s Montreal melon which was sold at a hefty price in all North-Eastern USA, and found only in the finest restaurants.
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