I'm live blogging at a news conference at The University of Montana. Gov. Brian Schweitzer is here to sign a bill that will make it easier for Montana institutions to buy Montana food.
Fascinating fact: In 1950, 70 percent of the food Montanans ate was raised in Montana. Today it's barely 10 percent.
This bill, SB 328, plans to change that.
Update: I posted the above from my Palm Treo 650, mostly just to see if I could. I had previously used it to upload photos to Flickr and to blog text, but never blogged a photo. It worked, hooray!
The food products shown are less than half of what was on display. There were also beautiful hams, wines, beer and more. UM's Farm to College Program is really cool, and it's great to see enthusiasm for local foods catching on elsewhere.
After the news conference, UM Dining Services served up burgers with a yummy Flathead cherry barbecue sauce, along with several desserts. Among them was the most amazing Dixon melon sorbet. Luscious.
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Reestablishing community - one bite at a time. I like it. With the farm to college program and our beautiful farmer's market, there's little excuse to eat as many exotic foods as we do. Go Schweitzer!
Yeah, it was kind of neat. I was surprised at how many different Montana-grown products they had on display.
And the theme fits perfectly with the book I'm reading, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," by Barbara Kingsolver.
I have that sorbet recipe!!! I got it up at Dixon Melon Days a couple of years ago! Works right in your ice cream maker!! Fabulous!
OK, Maggie, two things:
1. You have just talked me into buying the ice cream maker I've been thinking about.
2. You MUST give me that recipe. MUST.
Pleeease? :-)
2 med. sized melons (cubed)
1 cup simple syrup
3 T lime juice
You can adjust all of these according to how sweet the melons are. I tend to up the melons and lime juice. :) Just dump it into your ice cream maker and follow its directions.
P.S.
This works really well with mangos too.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Boy, now I REALLY can't wait for Dixon melon season to roll around.
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