The Meaning of Local in KC Anyone who has eaten a home-grown tomato from his or her own garden knows at least one advantage of locally raised food-taste. Big science, big business, big farming has changed the way we eat, often not for the better. In many ways we don’t even think about it: for instance, strawberries and bananas year round? Fresh caught shrimp in the dead of winter? New potatoes in February? There’s both good and bad to that source-ability. And there is another way. Perhaps. Gift baskets of heirloom tomatoes from Kurlbaum’s Heirloom Tomato Farm For years now, we’ve all been hearing about all the reasons to only eat locally produced foodstuffs. And by that, people usually mean food grown in smaller farms, outside, and preferably without pesticides, hormones, or any of the nasties that have made our food bigger, easier to transport longer distances, cheaper usually -- and probably more tasteless. For restaurants in the Midwest, it’s a di...
