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The Thirteenth Diet goes local for September

POSTED: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 4:55 PM

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Last month, Daniel McLaughlin of the excellent The Thirteenth Diet the blog project that sees the writer experimenting with a different diet every month of 2010 threw together an Ayurvedic feast. For September, McLaughlin's got a doozy on his hands he's organizing a local dinner, prepared exclusively with ingredients sourced from within a self-dictated 150-mile radius of Philly. While this certainly sounds brilliant and conscious and locavore-tastic, take a second to consider the challenges one's strict (and we mean strict) adherence to a local/sustainable diet presents:

If you mapped a mildly extravagant day of dining in terms of where your food and drink came from, you could quite easily ring the globe. Say you have smoked salmon for breakfast, a burger with an iced tea for lunch, lamb chops and risotto for dinner, with a piece of chocolate cake for dessert. While only considering the main ingredients, youve easily hit Norway for salmon, Argentina for beef, India for tea, New Zealand for lamb, China for rice, and Ghana for cocoa. Assuming some of the supplementary ingredients came from somewhere intra-national, youve had a day with food from 6 out of 7 continents. Crazy huh?

What's more, pantry staples like olive oil and salt cannot be derived within McLaughlin's 150-mile reach, so he's had to get quite creative in preparation for his five-course, $50 feast (BYO), which will be held Friday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. at the home of Philly interior designer Gregory Augustine. Peep the full menu here (spots there are only 24 are going super-fast) and secure a spot by dropping McLaughlin a line.

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