Remember, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon, the Vancouver, B.C.-based authors who helped create the locavore phenomenon of the "100-mile diet," are coming to Lake Forest Park on Sunday, July 20.

They'll be cooking at the Lake Forest Park farmers market with the folks from GreenGo at 4 p.m., then doing a reading and Q&A at Third Place Books at 5:30 p.m. I'll be having coffee (er ... I'll be having coffee, maybe they'll drink Rockridge Orchards cider) with them afterwards. If you have questions for them, send me an e-mail by Sunday morning or post them in the comments here.

As I've said before, I find Smith and MacKinnon interesting partly because their efforts to eat foods "grown, caught or foraged" close to home are of practical as well as philosophical use to us. Because they live in Vancouver, their 100-mile Venn diagrams of food sources intersect with ours.

It's a good thing they're coming now instead of a couple of weeks ago, because, after dropping by the Lake City Farmers Market yesterday, I'm officially ready to forgive the weather all its permutations of the past few months and relax into summer.

The market itself was worlds different from opening day just last month. It was bustling with shoppers (the guy at Tonnemaker Farm, where I snagged a bag of dark, sweet, Van cherries, said traffic has doubled since moving from the old location) and the tables were bursting with new options. Alvarez Farms had a bin of squash blossoms. Berries were everywhere, including the tayberries I wrote about from Schuh Farms. (I'm using my berries to make more berry "fool" from the River Cottage cookbook, which proved as easy and summer-scrumptious as it looked.) The line at Half Pint's ice cream stand was long enough to curve around and down the aisle (she had raspberry ice cream from Hampton Farms berries, and a lime-mint "mojito.") And Billy's from Tonasket had cherry tomatoes and tomatoes that -- I'm calling it, the good life is here -- had enough flavor to deserve the name.