Mural in Marin County outside Whole Earth Grocery, the health food store of all health food stores. Honest.I spent a bit of time this weekend uncomfortably chronicling my weekend in San Fran. Seemed apropos.
Went for work purposes which in my line of work often means just to eat. Which is what this trip was in fact all about. Eat. Get inspiration. Talk. All good. I ended up jotting down just about everything.
And it was all so boring. So many blogs are about where-I-ate and what-I-did.
Many of them are quite good but it just wasn't in my heart.
I got in a few good one-liners and then I gave up. Do you really care what I did day by day?
If you're here, we're here to talk about eating traceably and how to navigate doing so in the world or at least how I'm doing as a frazzled person in the work force, running around like a nut.
Yes, San Fran is all about local, sustainable, traceable food. But just like NYC, unless you go to very specific restaurants and/or cook your own food you bought at some endless, gorgeous farmer's market, it's still hard.
We did many things that would make you very proud.
We drove up to Marin Sun Farms and met with founder Dave Evans and talked to him about meat and purveying and harvesting the livestock and countless other related topics smack in the middle of the Redwoods in Marin County.
Found this breath of fresh air at the Marin Sun Farm market. The whole paper is full of positive news just like it says. And, drumroll for happiness, it's free.
Found this at Whole Earth. Fungi for the whole family. I'll let you now how that goes.At the Ferry Plaza Building Farmer's Market. Fabulous mexican food. Really great salmon sandwich. A pineapple cucumber juice that was BONUS unsweetened and perfect.
If you're comparing mushrooms to bling, matsutakes are major ice.
But as much as San Franciscan are crazy proud of the culture they've created and they are something to emulate, it's still freaking hard to really keep on the traceable track.
We're still in America and I do think that I thought I might be okay not to pack my own food with me like I would if I was going to Florida or Ohio or wherever.
I had great carnitas. Great mexican food period.
Tacos Sinaloa, Oakland, CA. Land of the brilliant carnitas
A very good paratha.
Gobhi paratha @ Vik's
From left: peanut banana, meyer lemon huckleberry, pumpkin chip, coconut @ Dynamo Donut, Mission District
God, I love a clean kitchen. @dynamo donut
Donuts gone!
Dinner at Zuni was great but suprisingly not very tracable. A conversation ensued how they don't claim to be. I think it's just the fact that they're very much on the map and came of age during a time right after Chez Panisse and their food is quite fresh that they must be. Not so much.
I don't feel that great since I've been eating away from home. The difference is always amazing to me.
Next post I'll be back to setting the stage again and figuring how to make this easier to accomodate.
Sherwin and I have been talking about making this a sixty day stretch since the information keeps coming in and we're getting a few readers. And because if I don't, I'll hear about it, here are a few of the photos I did take in between my phone dying.
Adios, City by the Bay.