The Salt Exchange

For your reading and web-browsing pleasure:

• It looks like the movement towards making local food more easily accessible to low income people is picking up across the country.  
• The Portland Press Herald reports that Good Shepherd Food Bank opened its new distribution center in Portland on Monday morning. 
• Further, the folks at Good Shepherd remind us that for many kids during the summer, no school lunch means no lunch at all. 
• According to USA Today, The First Family enjoyed cones at Mt. Desert Island Ice Cream Shop and ate at Stewman's Lobster Pound. The Washington Post reports they ate at Bar Harbor's Havana on Saturday.
• The First Family's visit to the state had folks looking at Maine as a foodie destination. Here, The Boston Globe examines prime, not-necessarily-obvious tourist destinations here in Maine. 
• The Raitt Homestead Farm Museum in Eliot is working on becoming a year-round exhibit.
• The blog Erin Cooks looks at some Maine Food Blogs.
• Finally, it looks like some lucky folks from Philly will be eating and drinking like some well-fed Mainers early next week.