Comments on: Reason For Not Eating Out #9: It’s Easier Being Green http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/ Consuming Les$, Eating More Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:24:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cathy http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/comment-page-1/#comment-7212 cathy Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:44:46 +0000 http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/#comment-7212 Hi Emily -- cool! That's great, I hope to see you there! Lou, thanks so much for sharing your experience. Fantastic roadside roast chicken sounds pretty awesome though, and I'm so envious of all the wonderful exotic fruits that you have. As great as apples are, the Northeast US is a dismally boring place for fruit! Best of luck! Hi Emily — cool! That’s great, I hope to see you there!

Lou, thanks so much for sharing your experience. Fantastic roadside roast chicken sounds pretty awesome though, and I’m so envious of all the wonderful exotic fruits that you have. As great as apples are, the Northeast US is a dismally boring place for fruit! Best of luck!

]]> By: Emily http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/comment-page-1/#comment-7210 Emily Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:08:37 +0000 http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/#comment-7210 I've been reading your site for about a month now, and I'm so glad you posted this. I've been considering reading Omnivore's Dilemma after seeing several mixed reviews, and I'm now motivated enought to pick it up. New to Brooklyn (and NYC, actually) and looking to meet foodies - so I'll be @ the book club next week, too. Thanks again. I’ve been reading your site for about a month now, and I’m so glad you posted this. I’ve been considering reading Omnivore’s Dilemma after seeing several mixed reviews, and I’m now motivated enought to pick it up.

New to Brooklyn (and NYC, actually) and looking to meet foodies – so I’ll be @ the book club next week, too. Thanks again.

]]> By: Lou http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/comment-page-1/#comment-7112 Lou Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:19:09 +0000 http://noteatingoutinny.com/2007/04/12/reason-for-not-eating-out-8-its-easier-being-green/#comment-7112 Funny you should bring it up; I'm on page 105 of the Omnivore's dilemma. It's a fascinating read. I believe I eat more green now that' I'm in Puerto Rico (I moved here 2 years ago). All of our beef, chicken, and pork comes from here, so nothing can have been processed more than 60 miles away from me. We once got a fresh ham from a relative a mile away, and it was still warm when we got it. We have 30 free-range chickens (we supplement their food with corn), but we have not been able to bring ourselves to kill them (though a couple are looking pretty nervous). Of course, we can still get the processed products from the mainland, but we try to avoid it. We also grow a lot of our own produce on our land. We have citrus of all kinds, pineapple, star fruit, breadfruit, and many root vegetables I'd never heard of before coming here. My apples, however, still come from Washington state. On the other hand, the only wheat flour I can get is bleached, bromated, all purpose. It doesn't seem to work the same way as the unbleached I used before coming here. I make a lot of bread and pizza, so I use what I can find. Not eating in restaurants is easy: we don't have any, at least in the central mountain region where I live. I'm sure I could find a good restaurant in San Juan, but it's too far away. We have a lot of US imported fast food places, but didn't eat that stuff when I lived in Boston, and I certainly won't now. It amazes me that Churchs Chicken is so popular, considering there are roadside stands all over the place selling fantastic roast chicken. Funny you should bring it up; I’m on page 105 of the Omnivore’s dilemma. It’s a fascinating read. I believe I eat more green now that’ I’m in Puerto Rico (I moved here 2 years ago). All of our beef, chicken, and pork comes from here, so nothing can have been processed more than 60 miles away from me. We once got a fresh ham from a relative a mile away, and it was still warm when we got it. We have 30 free-range chickens (we supplement their food with corn), but we have not been able to bring ourselves to kill them (though a couple are looking pretty nervous).

Of course, we can still get the processed products from the mainland, but we try to avoid it.

We also grow a lot of our own produce on our land. We have citrus of all kinds, pineapple, star fruit, breadfruit, and many root vegetables I’d never heard of before coming here. My apples, however, still come from Washington state.

On the other hand, the only wheat flour I can get is bleached, bromated, all purpose. It doesn’t seem to work the same way as the unbleached I used before coming here. I make a lot of bread and pizza, so I use what I can find.

Not eating in restaurants is easy: we don’t have any, at least in the central mountain region where I live. I’m sure I could find a good restaurant in San Juan, but it’s too far away. We have a lot of US imported fast food places, but didn’t eat that stuff when I lived in Boston, and I certainly won’t now. It amazes me that Churchs Chicken is so popular, considering there are roadside stands all over the place selling fantastic roast chicken.

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