Growers and Grocers

Kobe beef is now commonplace at high-end restaurants. Well, Kobe-style beef at any rate. The famously well-marbled meat that Americans have eaten for the last four years has come not from the small town of Kobe, Japan, but from domestic farms. The United States government banned imports of the real deal when mad cow turned […]

While looking at Slow Food USA’s site, I noticed their new RAFT initiative. Seven major agricultural conservation groups have assembled under the RAFT umbrella, headed up by food writer and local food champion Gary Paul Nabhan.
The new organization has set out some immediate goals: “1) make a comprehensive catalog of America’s indigenous edible plants and […]

Get the year off to a good start by resolving to shop at farmers’ markets more often in 2006. Once a month, twice a month, or every week: It doesn’t matter, just do it.
Here’s why:

The food tastes better. When a farmer sells to a large buyer, s/he has to harvest the produce before its […]

SFist.com editor-at-large Jackson West rhapsodized about the taste of freshly killed chicken in this post. Few consumers get the chance to eat really fresh meat, but this love letter to perky poultry will inspire you to seek it out.
He found his dinner at a store in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ethnic markets in other large […]