Sometimes I worry that it is. That all this; local food, local community, organic food, humane treatment of animals, developing local economies based on people running their own businesses, mutual trust built on real relationships, the move away from industrial food, that it’ll all go away. It’s happened before. This philosophy was popular back in [...]
Updates on The Cottage Food Law: Licenses, ordinances, and the Board Of Supervisors
The Cottage Food Law, which allows the homemade production and sale of certain foods, was passed on Jan 1st. I was so excited because I assumed that people would be able to start getting permits right away, but of course, that is not how government works. I’ve recently started looking into where we are in [...]
Selling Life: Why a Soybean is Not a Stereo
Selling Life: Why a Soybean is Not a Stereo I heard a story on my way into work today and am feeling compelled to write something about it. It covered the Supreme Court case of a soybean farmer vs. Monsanto. The case, as I understand it, boils down to this: a man went to a [...]
Looking back over four years of dinners
Tonight is our four year anniversary of our Wild Kitchen dinners, our meals that focus on locally foraged ingredients. It’s crazy that’s its been four years! I did the first Wild Kitchen on Valentine’s Day in a friend of a friend’s warehouse in the Mission. At the time my email list was about 50 people [...]
Why I had to kill The Underground market….
On letting go…. I went to film school, and something a professor once said has really stuck with me (one of the few things that did…). It was the notion that sometimes you have to “kill your babies“. He was talking about filmmaking of course, and what he was alluding to was the idea that [...]
This week in Forage Kitchen: Jan 7th
The holidays have scattered us far and wide, so we’ve all had a dose of much needed down time. I took a trip up north to visit my dad in northern CA, spent a few days watching the rain and playing an outdated version of trivial pursuit (interesting how many facts have changed in the [...]
