The Garden State in Primetime

This week I heard that Merriam-Webster is adding new words to the dictionary, including one of my favorites, “locavore”. It simply means, eating foods that are grown locally. Although I had heard the word before, I really came to understand (and appreciate) it while reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver. It is a book rich with food for thought, and recipes you might want to try if you can just put down the book. In this day and age of good and plenty, imagine voluntarily limiting yourself to only food that you yourself raised, and that was in season. (I invite you to just *imagine* this exercise, as actually putting this into practice is certainly beyond most of our lifestyles). But the imagining is a worthy exercise, if only to refocus us on the wonderful bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables that we have in this season where we live, namely in the Garden State.

If this puts you in the right frame of mind, you might want to try out our new local Farmers Market.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life is available as a book, an audiobook on CD, and a downloadable Audio book.

As if you need another challenge ...

We know that life is a little challenging these days, but here's a Challenge that's fun, and might lead to a sweet treat at the end.

For our Adult patrons, we have designed a Challenge that will broaden your reading/listening horizon, and give you a chance to win a prize, as well as introducing you to some new resources (and maybe some oldies, too) in the library.

For details, click here.