Creative Eating

Kim O'Donnel over at A Mighty Appetite just announced the blog's first-ever "Eat Local Challenge." Say what? Here's how it works: participants agree to infuse their diets with at least 10 food items grown or raised within a 100-mile radius of their hometown, for a period of at least one week, beginning July 19. You can sign up by emailing Kim; the deadline (for being recognized as an official participant, at least) is July 14.

Food and creativity are endlessly intertwined for me - food as inspiration, cooking and baking as art. To me, paying attention to the source of your food isn't just about politics, or ethics - it's about remembering food comes from the earth, or from animals, not from "the store"; it's about remembering the biology behind eating...the "creation" of food.

Kim and a few others will be blogging about the experience - I'll be sure to post some links.

More on food from Creative DC:

• Foraging - farmers markets and creative inspiration, from last week
  
• Creative Cooking - cooking as a creative act, from 9.06
• Demo-licious - cupcakes! and food video as art (unlike the Food Network), from 1.08
  
• Slow Food - mindful eating as part of creative living, from 10.07
• Food Poetry - just what it says! from 4.08