Could you get your food only from your local area? It sounds possible — unless you live in Darwin and you like garlic, coffee, oil, and salt.
"I'm going to get some roast local beef and render down the fat to make tallow so that will be my oil source," the horticulturalist-by-trade said."I'm definitely going to be missing my dairy and gluten things — pasta, rice, bread.
"I've mulled over the salt issue and I can't justify the amount of energy used to fetch seawater and evaporate it off."But coffee has been a big loss. And her little coffee plant probably won't feed the craving. "Coffee does actually grow quite well here if you wanted to be truly dedicated to the cause," she said.Maya Pillai from Darwin's CBD has been a source of inspiration for many of the participants.
Local food challenger Maya Pillai has been missing garlic. But her traditional green banana peel recipes from Mumbai have come in useful."People never thought that part could be eaten," she said."You marinate it like a fish and then batter it and fry it."Maya Pillai presenting a green banana workshop for the Top End Local Food Challenge at Lakeside Drive Community Garden in Alawa.
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