The Local Lent Challenge

During the six long weeks of Lent, C and I have agreed to eat local food only. To be more specific, C. and I looked up our 100-mile radius and have promised to cook with foods from within that bound only. This means no coffee, tea, beer (we have no local source of hops for brewing), or olive oil (sigh). This still allows us plenty of nice vegetables, meat, eggs, cream, honey, flour, and local wine.

Wait....no olive oil?

Ok. So we've agreed to use up items we already have on hand, meaning that salt and pepper will probably last with us through this run. Should we run out of any nonlocal items (Champagne?) during Lent, we will make-do without that item or find its local counterpart.

The other exclusion clause is an upcoming trip to Charleston. Eating local there should be pretty easy (oysters, oysters, and shrimp??) but we've agreed to take some leeway here since the purpose of this trip was to discover/enjoy more of Charleston.

More to follow, later.