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Local food goes national

Foodzie redefines “local food marketplace”

By Culinate staff

January 28, 2009

Recently a group in San Francisco introduced a new food site, Foodzie, with the goal of connecting artisanal-food producers with customers all over the country. “Foodzie is a gourmet version of Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods that has been hugely successful,” writes Claire Cain Miller on the New York Times Bits blog. The post, entitled “An Online Farmers Market,” has gotten some negative attention, however. “The local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers,” writes a blogger at The Jew and the Carrot. “Is there a contradiction here?”

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1. by anonymous on Jan 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM PST

I find the negativity about buying food from small artisan producers online ironic. Don’t they all mostly have their own websites to sell to people everywhere? I don’t see a ton of people trying to make a living with food businesses deciding that selling online or by mail order is wrong because it’s against the “local movement.” Selling via the Internet or gasp, by phone, makes sense when someone is creating a unique and high quality product for which there is demand elsewhere. Yes it wastes gas to transport these products but wouldn’t you much rather protest distribution of bottled water than distribution of a product you can only get from one certain place that the rest of the world would benefit from experiencing???

I certainly would!

Sincerely,

A Foodie Who Says Local Has Its Time and Place

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