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Slow Food
McDonald’s fans, bear with me for the next couple of minutes….

You may notice that we often allude to farmer’s markets on TheProvidenceLife.com. Well I’m here to explain that the staff has a foodie on their hands and I can’t help but make my plug for the joys of local, fresh, ingredients while I have the audience.

You’ve probably heard by now, local food is making a resurgence. So long Wendy’s drive-through, ta ta KFC, good, clean, fair food is back in action and making its way to your dinner table. As Wikipedia defines it, “local food” is “a collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place.” For me, it means walking through the farmer’s market seeing vivid greens lined up in wicker baskets, juicy red tomatoes being doused in sunlight, rich purple eggplants and as an added bonus, community. Mark my words, the market has a powerful effect over you. I would be shocked if you were to report back that you did not see the same smiling faces of a community coming together to celebrate the distinct fresh taste and added nutrition of local ingredients.

Now don’t get me wrong, not every meal has to come straight from a garden and served by candlelight at your dining room table, but when you do dine out, its nice to know that some local restaurants are dedicated to using fresh, local, sustainable ingredients. My personal recommendations? Local 121, New Rivers, La Laiterie and of course, all the Farmer’s Markets.
Live, love and eat (local, that is).

As you probably noticed, we have a whole new look and feel to our site now. We’ve spent months developing it and working to make it as friendly as possible. If you’ve never been to the site before, well - its still new to you. Either way, thanks for stopping by and we hope you find everything you are looking for. If not, you can always let us know. If you find something thats wrong, or you don’t like please tell us. We built this site for our users to have the best guide to their city we can, and together we can make it better.

We are going to follow this post up with several about all the great new things you can do on our site. If you use some popular social networking websites, like facebook or MySpace, you will recognize some familiar sights - create a basic profile, contact business owners directly, read our blogs, review your favorite or least favorite businesses, heck even become our blogger. For now, just take a new look around and see as we launch better and dare we say - funner? tools.

Have fun out there, and don’t forget - every day is a good day to Live the Good Life!