Back to the garden

My kind of local eating starts with a trip to the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Renfrew.

There’s a logic here, really. Buying stuff to plant in the garden means going into Renfrew – our nearest big town, with about 6,000 people. That’s an all-day outing, which means lunch in town. And that means either the chip truck or the Chinese buffet. At $9.75, about double the price of the large fries, the lure of the buffet is irresistible – especially on a calories-per-dollar basis.

So, replete wit...