Why buy local?
In a word -- freshness. Most food on store shelves travels an average of 1,500 miles. That requires a lot of trucks and a lot of fuel. My Neighbor Steve's sauce is cooked in Baldwin City, Kansas, from tomatoes, basil, and garlic grown organically in Douglas County, and delivered to stores in a Honda that's seen better days but gets reasonably good gas mileage.
Wouldn't you rather buy sauce from your neighbor than some stranger who lives thousands of miles away?
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Why buy organic?
Organic produce is not sprayed with pesticides. Therefore you ingest food, not chemicals!
And organic farming methods are sustainable, relying on nature's processes to grow healthy plants and maintain soil productivity rather than on pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
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Why this recipe?
Well, really it was kind of an accident.
A couple summers ago, I was trying to figure out a new way to use the tomatoes and basil that were taking over my kitchen counter. Suddenly, I remembered a recipe I learned in a cooking class during a college study abroad stint in Florence, Italy. It proved popular with my wife and kids and dinner guests, and always reminds me of warm summer evenings, Florence, and my cooking teacher, Alessandro.
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