HOW FARMERS CAN SELL LOCALLY GROWN MEATS, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

A NINTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE

Congressman Rick Boucher invites all of his constituents in the Ninth District to a local food conference to be held in Abingdon on Monday, July 28 at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center.  There will be no charge for attendance.  A number of speakers, including growers and retail buyers, will speak on the retail climate for local products, expanding opportunities for marketing, new trends in the marketplace, and other important issues.  To register for this conference, or for more information, call Rep. Boucher's Abingdon office at (276) 628-1145.  Cosponsors of this event include Grayson LandCare and Appalachian Sustainable Development.

Y P Gupta prepared chai on a visit to the homestead a few years ago. It was pleasant but not exciting. George Meyer, Steve Wolfe and I dined at Spice-n-Curry in South Durham NC, this week and the chai was exciting.

The restaurant is adjacent to an Indian food store and we stopped to sample their wares. I returned the next day and asked our waiter how they prepared chai. He explained that every Indian family has their own chai recipe just as they have their own recipe for dal. But after I persisted he took me to the store to acquire the ingredients - black tea (they prefer Assam but my wife prefers something more delicate like Darjeeling), cardamom pods, fresh ginger.

This is the recipe, enough to make two large mugs.