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by gansie

Hott Link: Keeping Love Local

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Now ES has surely given you recipe advice, political advice and feminism advice, but one thing we haven’t really lectured about was your love life. Slate, however, gave us an in: humans should be dating locally just as much as they are eating locally. (No offense BS and Alex!)

The same type of environmental logic has already been applied to our eating habits. The Local Food movement encourages us to cut CO₂ emissions by calculating food miles—the distance a meal travels from production to the dinner table—and eating only what’s produced within a 100-mile radius. Isn’t it time for a Date Local movement, too? Let’s start thinking about “sex miles”: Just how far was this person shipped to hook up with you? And how many times more efficient would it be to date someone within a 100-mile radius?

So while you’re slutting it up this Halloween, remember, you’re doing the world a huge eco-favor by getting your ass locally.

Date Local. The case against long-distance relationships [Slate]

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by BS

Too Good to Be Food

I’m a little late getting to this story, but it has absolutely floored me, so I just had to share.

I’m sure everyone here has had the privilege of eating a Pringle or two in their lifetime. Or, more likely, seven or seventy or seven thousand. Once you pop, you can’t stop. It really is true. More than a few times in my life, I have sat down and eaten an entire tin of these things in one sitting. There’s just something about them–you could eat Pringles all day long and still be hungry. Now, after all this time, I’ve finally found out why that is–THEY AREN’T FOOD.

by BS

Feed Us Back: Comments of the Week

– Bobby has taken a commanding lead in the Spice Master Who Cooked It Better, but it ain’t over ’til it’s over – you’ve still got a couple days left, so make sure to cast your vote. Don’t forget to catch the mudslinging.

JoeHoya: My opponent’s dish represents four more meals of the same Middle East strategy.

We hear some shady 527’s are planning last-minute anti-Rosemary push polls.

– Meanwhile, I still don’t know who to believe in the whole raw milk debate:

Jenny: the benefits of raw milk have been illustrated in several studies and the risk of pathogens is incredibly low in raw milk from clean dairies. Pasteurization is simply an excuse to produce dirty milk.

Nikki: So what does raw milk have that pasteurized milk doesn’t…that I NEED to have in order to lead a healthful, fulfilled life? And can I get these properties from another source? Does it have to be dirty milk? And yes, it is dirty. Raw=dirty.

Fearless Kitchen: I’m pretty opposed to government interference in matters of personal choice. If someone wants to drink raw milk I have no problem with their drinking raw milk, with the caveat that they need to know what they’re getting into. And I do like raw milk cheese, proximity to cow hiney notwithstanding. I wouldn’t eat it if my immune system were compromised or if I were expecting or something like that, but since none of these are the case… As for drinking, I’ll stick to beer. Solves the problem for me!

Finally, Rooms digs back to Sarah Palin’s recipes and brings us some much-need scientific knowledge:

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by gansie

A Rooms With a View

On Rooms’ birthday, we’d like to thank her for her culinary point of view (to sound like the douches from The Next Food Network Star) : science! She’s taught us about the albumin protein of an egg, the relationship between fennel and flatulence and the lives of crabs, no, not that crab.

Happy Birthday, Rooms!

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by rooms

What The Fennel?

With BS’s successful citron endeavor behind us, I thought I too would ask “WTF?”

We’ve managed to grow some gorgeous fennel in our garden, but as you can see after the jump, the cuke patch is taking over, and trying to bring the fennel down. It’s harvest time.

I planted this knowing that I like fennel, but am realizing now that it’s go time that I don’t actually know what to do with it. Any ideas folks? I know you’ll come through for me ES readers!

Also some interesting facts about fennel post jump. . .

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by rooms

I Have Crab Cakes, too. . . in Maine

We may be famous for our lobstah up here, but I made some damn good crab cakes with some local Maine crab meat last summer that I’ve been meaning to share with you guys. I was reminded after the post a few weeks back. This is an alteration/combination of a recipe from my mom and some Old Bay inspirations. I didn’t have any Old Bay on hand, but I knew I wanted the flavor in there, so I looked up the ingredients and tossed in most of them proportionate to how much I like each spice.

These are wicked good, better than restaurant! Enough talk, recipe after the jump.

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by Russell Warnick

Water Bucket Review!

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Water is food, right? Good, glad we agree. I like to consider myself conscious of the environment, I have a recycle bin at home, in the office and I buy the 365 cleaners from WF, although I do miss the comfort of soft toilet paper. Oh, and I’m also a sucker for gadgets. So last week when a friend of mine who works at an environmental non-profit told me of a reusable filtered water bottle I knew I had to get my hands on one and tell you guys about it. We like to educate and inform here at ES, not just entertain!

The Wellness H2.O Bottle is a reusable plastic bottle with its own water filtration system, kind of like a portable Brita. The company behind the bottle claims that it can filter up to 1100 gallons of water without the need to replace the filter, which they state is a savings of $1,000 in bottled water, if you drink that much bottled water. And for our DC readers this is pretty much mandatory for the water out of our taps!

Read my review after the jump.

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