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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.

Easy Laulau Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

6 To 8 Ti leaves

3 lb Boneless pork,beef,or chickn

1 lb Salted butterfish; soaked

2 ts Liquid smoke

4 lb Frozen luau leaves; thawed

-and drained Cut and discard stems from ti leaves. Wash leaves; do not dry. Cut meat into 1 inch chunks. Rinse butterfish and remove skin; cut into bite-sized pieces. In a large bowl, mix meat with fish with liquid smoke. Line a large baking pan with foil; lay 3 to 4 ti leaves in pan. Add half of the luau leaves. Arrange meat mixture evenly on luau leaves; put remaining luau and ti leaves on top. Cover pan tightly with foil. Bake in oven at 350~ for 3 hours. Source: 100 Years of Island Cooking by Hawaiian Electric Company Formatted by: Dorie Villarreal -----

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