 | | If 10,000 Chicago Biters opt for locally produced foods for half their diet, in a year we'd avert the CO2 emissions produced by almost 1.5 mil cars - six times the number that travel Lake Shore Drive each day. |
|  |  | | According to food historians, carrot cake likely descended from a medieval European recipe for carrot pudding when refined sweeteners were scarce. | | |
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Are you a betting man (or woman)? Then go for broke at the Green Grocer, and take stock of owner Cassie Green’s well-edited selection of local and organic products. The LED-lit market sprouted up in West Town late January, and features fresh and packaged items, plus organic cleaning and beauty products. Raspberry preserves from Tomato Mountain Farms (WI) and banana-mango yogurt from Trader’s Point Creamery (IN) stack up next to olive sourdough from Bennison’s Bakery (Evanston) and roasted beet chips from the city’s own Papa Lena’s. We staged a hostile takeover of the fab carrot cake - thick with organic cream cheese frosting and spiced just so - from Gary-based Bruno’s Organics. As market indicators go, that’s a buy. |
| | Wanna Try? | | Green Grocer, 1402 W. Grand Ave. b/t Noble and Bishop Sts. (312-624-9508). Carrot cake slice, $3. |
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