EuroVox | 09.06.2008 | 23:30
Garden Pickings Deck the Table at Dutch “Locavore” Restaurant
In Amsterdam, the De Kas Restaurant has been feeding customers for seven years from its own garden plot in Frankendael Park. The owners are part of a growing movement of gastronomes who call themselves "locavores."
Locavores is a term that entered the New Oxford American Dictionary last year as "word of the year". Also known as the 100-mile diet, it refers to people who restrict their diets to food that is grown or raised locally. The concept behind the three-course dinner menu at De Kas is really simple. You get what the chef picks ripe from the garden that very day -- a garden that is literally close enough to smell.
Report: Alison Hawkes
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