The impossibles: These are things that can't be grown, found or produced locally. Many of them were very costly just a few centuries ago, before the advent of global sea trade. We now understand why.
- coffee: We buy fair trade, organic, shade grown beans. And no, we can't live without them.
- tea: As above, we buy fairly traded, organic teas.
- chocolate: Specifically, about an ounce of dark Lindt chocolate offered me by a coworker. I have the self control of a chicken.
The unbelievables: We're convinced we should be able to find these locally but haven't been able to yet. If you know of a local source please contact us.
- salt: We're told that the first salt produced in the New World came from the Chesapeake Bay but don't know of a source that sells it today. There are also salt mines in West Virginia but their product is used for industrial purposes not human consumption. As she said earlier, Sarah conceded only because the butter we've found locally has salt.
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