One of the most frequent questions I am asked is how to read food labels so that they may decipher what food is worth buying. My reply is rarely appreciated but I'll repeat it again. It's easy, just don't buy food with labels and then you don't have to worry about reading them!
And just where do you buy food without a label? You buy it where food comes from...farms. If you shop at your local farms there will be no gimmicks, misleading marketing, confusing food labels, or mutilated food. What you will get is a bouquet of amazing aromas (there is nothing like the smell of perfectly ripe food), produce bursting with flavor that will not be left to rot in the crisper but rather begs to be eaten, and the story of your food from seed until consumption.
In the previous post I put a link to a farm listed on http://www.localharvest.org/. Devour this site! Punch in your zip code (or a zip code where you are traveling to this summer) and you will find local farmer's markets, grass fed meats of all kinds, farm fresh eggs, cheeses, milks, yogurt, kefir, butter, grains, vegetables, fruit, CSAs, honey, herbs, and just about anything else edible you can imagine that comes from the earth (and should we eat it if it didn't come from the earth?).
I'll be posting many resources on this blog but this is one of the best comprehensive sites there is. Just thinking about it makes me want to go into the kitchen and get one of those soak-your-chin-and shirt-down-to-your-toes, juicy peaches form a local orchard!
Bon Appetit!
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