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...favorite definition of local comes from Columbia's Gussow, a reporter for Time in the 1950s who went on to become a local-eating pioneer. For 25 years, Gussow has lectured on the environmental (and culinary) disadvantages of relying on a global food supply. Her most oft-quoted statistic is that shipping a strawberry from California to New York requires 435 calories of fossil fuel but provides the eater with only 5 calories of nutrition. In her memoir, Gussow offers this rather poetic meaning of local: "Within a day's leisurely drive of our homes. [This] distance is entirely arbitrary...
...never really thought about how my food purchases might affect "the food system." Even now I don't share the pessimism and asceticism of the local-eating set. In her 2001 memoir, This Organic Life, Columbia University nutritionist Joan Dye Gussow writes that her commitment to eating locally "is probably driven by three things. The first is the taste of live food; the second is my relation to frugality; the third is my deep concern about the state of the planet." I don't have much relation to frugality, and, perhaps foolishly, I'm more optimistic than Gussow about...
...League. Fresh off its 50-43 victory over Princeton last Saturday night, which snapped a five-game losing streak, the sixth-place Crimson will face Cornell (15-11, 8-4 Ivy) in Ithaca, N.Y at 7 p.m. tonight. Tomorrow, Harvard will head to New York City to take on Columbia (14-12, 5-7 Ivy) in its season finale. The Crimson’s last meeting with Cornell ended successfully, when sophomore forward Evan Harris’ layup with 0.8 seconds remaining gave Harvard a 65-64 win at Lavietes Pavilion on Feb. 3. Last year when the teams...
...captain guard Jim Goffredo and forward Brian Darcy, this weekend’s games at Cornell and Columbia are the final times they will put on the Crimson and White uniforms, or any basketball uniform in a competitive environment...
Goffredo has two more games in which to add to his legacy at Harvard as he and Darcy close out their careers at Cornell tonight and at Columbia tomorrow...