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I have tried hard, really hard, over the last few years to eat  
locally. Most of the time I have no problems.
What gets me *every* winter is citrus. I get to craving citrus and  
eventually I find myself drooling at the site of oranges.
It is not pretty in the co-op, I tell you. I lose control and the next  
thing you know I'm sitting on the floor of fruit section with pith on  
my chin and juice down my front.
And oooooohhhh...Clementines.

I found a recipe for Picked Limes in Cook's Illustrated recently. I am  
probably the only weirdo who remembers this, but in the book Little
Women, Amy gets in trouble for smuggling pickled limes into school,  
and she gets wrapped on the knuckles. It was scandalous. I always  
wondered what they were.
And I loved that her mother took her out of school and homeschooled  
her because of it.  ; )

Anyway, pickled limes and lemons sound like heaven right now. I'm  
thinking next year I need to candy oranges. It is so humid here, I  
have never had good luck drying fruit.

Cheers


On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jeanne Driese <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Did y'all cover Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" when it  
> > came
> > out?
> > I did and I learned a lot.  He spent time with Joel Salatin and  
> > Joel was
> > the key note speaker at SSWAG conference in January.  Michael  
> > Pollan's style
> > of writing is one of my favorites.  He tells it like it is and then  
> > leaves
> > your to decide, or reach, your own conclusions.
> > Jeanne
>
>
> I'm reading this book now, just started a couple days ago. It's so  
> good that
> I told my husband he's going to love reading it as well. ;)  We only  
> read
> the same book if it's extremely well written--since we tend to prefer
> different subjects.
>
> Lisa
>
> >
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