Food and cooking tips

Buy Local Food : It’s easy to take locally abundant foods for granted when they’re in season, but you can enjoy many locally produced foods out of season by stocking up. Storing big baskets of hazelnuts (in the Northwest) or pecans (in the Southeast) will come naturally if you start thinking like a squirrel. Look for foods that keep well, such as nuts, honey, winter squash and sweet potatoes and stock up.

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Foolproof Meringue Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

1 tablespoon cornstarch

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 cup water

6 tablespoons sugar

3 egg whites

1 pinch salt

Mix cornstarch, sugar and water. Cook until clear, and set aside. Add salt to e gg white. Whip until foamy or standing in peaks. Add to cornstarch mixture. Con tinue beating until creamy. Gradually add remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a ti me, and beat until not grainy after each addition. Spoon onto your favorite cre am filling pie. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Jenny Jones

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