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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Beach Plum Shrub that's a Drink, Not a Plant

CAI | By Elspeth Hay
Published September 6, 2018 at 8:32 AM EDT
Elspeth Hay

Shrub is a colonial soda made with fresh fruit, vinegar, and sugar. This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay talks with a Wellfleet cook using local beach plums to make this old-fashioned soda.

You can find recipes for raspberry shrub and beach plum shrub and a list of cocktail ideas with shrub on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore.

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This piece first aired in September, 2013. 
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Elspeth Hay
Elspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.
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