One is requested to eat local produce but this is not always easy. There is “Louisiana” coffee but it is not actually local. The local sugar and rum do come from our very own cane fields. There is Louisiana wine but I dislike it, and now there is Louisiana olive oil but it is very expensive and I have only seen it at Whole Paycheck. Billboards exhort us to buy Louisiana, not Chinese crawfish, and to eat Louisiana oysters “for love.” There is local honey and of course we have hot peppers. We also have a dairy although not everyone sells its milk. We can even get goat cheeses – one of them being called “Jolie Blonde” – from Chef John Folse.
I have in my possession locally caught or produced tasso, shrimp, tilapia, Vidalia onions, Creole tomatoes, figs, satsumas, Key limes, lemons, oranges and herbs. But the best Louisiana product is the rice. It is world class and very aromatic. The smell of it cooking calls up visions of voluptuous luxury in exotic lands. Right now I have “popcorn” rice from Campbell Farms in Gueydan. It comes in a cloth bag with the picture of a duck on it.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I wonder if it is still true that most rice is consumed within walking distance of where it is grown. Freshness counts with rice, so I guess I’ve never had the pleasure of eating really good rice. In the old days here the Japanese cane field workers grew it in small paddies for their own use.
We ate “local” today: mahi-mahi, breadfruit,and cabbage salad. The breadfruit was from our tree. Tomorrow I’ll have more ripe avocados than I know what to do with, so I’ll distribute them to my neighbors.
Oh, and I have about 14 orchids in bloom.
I love the abundance here. Plenty of sun, plenty of rain, deep soil.
Abundance is excellent. And this is very interesting about the freshness of rice. Perhaps that is the reason it is so good here.
I eat many various kangaroos.
You know, I had never thought of eating them and I thought you were joking, but I googled kangaroo eating and it appears to be as common as eating llama in Peru.