Today, it has become common to eat foods from far away. Foods eaten in the United States travel an average of 1300 miles to reach the dinner table. In the past, people got most of their foo from farms and factories in their local area. Slow Food members say,"people should be buying more local food. It's fresh, and it's part of our culture." One man in the United States, Gary Nabhan, decided to try this. For one year, all his food came from plants and animals near his home in Arizona. One local animals is the rattlesnake. Nabhan ate that, too! In his book coming Home to Eat, he says it tastes just like chicken.