Posted in Farm to Fork, Real Time Farms blog on September 2, 2011
The heavy lifting side to cooking – sliding a bone saw through a 200-pound quarter of beef, for example – belies the regal decadence of the art in the final product. Perfectly balanced orbs of color, texture, flavor and elegance arrive to your table. Removed from the blood of the animal and the dirt of [...]
Posted in On Food…, Real Time Farms blog on July 18, 2011
Concerns such as transparency and accountability may not be forefront within the halls of government but they certainly are when government goes to dine. Sweetgreen Touted as “an ecofriendly salad-centric resto” in Daily Candy, Sweetgreen has taken DC by storm. First opened in DC in 2007 with a blizzard of media attention: US Weekly for [...]
Posted in Farmers Markets, Oh Say Can You CSA!, Real Time Farms blog on July 4, 2011
I am happy to report our capital city, the thriving metropolis of Washington DC, shuts down roads and stops traffic for local food – and it all began with FRESHFARM markets. The 501c3 organization runs 11 farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. One of the two FRESHFARM Directors, Ann Yonkers, recently shared with me [...]
Posted in Farm to Fork, Real Time Farms blog, Vision on May 31, 2011
(Other than being a good word for freerice.com, encomium denotes a song of praise.) Just in time for a perfect week of spring weather, I visited DC (my hometown) and Baltimore to walk up and down the Mall, visit the Department of Agriculture (USDA), talk to restaurants in love with transparency, take pictures of markets, [...]
Posted in Farm to Fork, Real Time Farms blog on May 23, 2011
“Have you heard about the Slow Food campaign? They are urging supporters to send in pictures of farms to protest against the Florida, Iowa, and Minnesota bills that would make it illegal to take a picture or a video of a farm. They are calling it the farmarazzi campaign.” Two weeks ago, I am sharing [...]
