> In the colder climes, we should be shipping in "accent" products from the west coast to liven things up, but there's plenty of regional produce that can and should form the staple.
Yes! For example: I live in western Illinois, and my seasonal eating involves summers with lots of fresh local fruits and veggies, reserving the jars of pasta sauce and much of the meat for the winter. (Meat, if you think about it, is the original preservative: no need to refrigerate until you kill it, you just need to "fuel" it through the winter.) I certainly don't forsake things that can't be made locally but I try to mostly eat them during the times when the things that can be grown locally are offline. Hence I now think of orange juice and mangoes and such as "winter fruit". :)
Yes! For example: I live in western Illinois, and my seasonal eating involves summers with lots of fresh local fruits and veggies, reserving the jars of pasta sauce and much of the meat for the winter. (Meat, if you think about it, is the original preservative: no need to refrigerate until you kill it, you just need to "fuel" it through the winter.) I certainly don't forsake things that can't be made locally but I try to mostly eat them during the times when the things that can be grown locally are offline. Hence I now think of orange juice and mangoes and such as "winter fruit". :)