Kinship with a taste community is just a Google search away these days, but in 1972 that wasn't the case.
There are many good reasons for eating local — freshness, purity, taste, community cohesion and preserving open space — but none of these benefits compares to the much-touted claim that eating local reduces fossil fuel consumption.
Matt Timms, creator of The Brooklyn Hot Sauce Takedown, is one of the more passionate members of the tasting community.
It is also about taste, enjoyment, community and life.
The Lot combines the city's ever-sprawling musical tastes, the community-incubating effect of a brick-and-mortar location, and a full spectrum of Web capabilities to offer a truly unique radio experience.
I'm told that the decision to remain in invite-only Beta for such a long time, not only enabled the team to hone its technology but also to grow the social aspect of the service in a way that promoted the quality of its music taste-making community, in size and density.
After all, the issue of government aiding wealthy sports team owners with lucrative deals and incentives has left a bad taste in many communities -- and this deal had to work for the whole state of New Jersey.
Also, she said, "it was in very, very bad taste to our community".
This was not Rabbi Eisenbach's first tangle with the town's arbiters of community taste.
Australia's history of tax reform has left the country in pretty good shape, so it doesn't have such a bad taste in the community.
But changing tastes later threatened communities – until what gnomes hope will go down in history as the Glorious Summer of 2013.
