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The Kitchen Is Our PlaygroundThe Kitchen Is Our PlaygroundThe opening of a restaurant in San Diego, California, from inspiration, to concept, to operations.
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Bella Vado Avocado Oil Tour
2007-11-17 02:50:00 I met Sid da Silva last week for a tour of his 40 acre avocado farm and avocado oil production facility. Take a look at this video to find out about: background, seasonality, employees, organic, grove age, neighboring farms, solar panels, only producer of avocado oil in U.S., fire, insurance, water, irrigation, climate, physical ... More About: Tour , Bella
American Apparel Factory Tour
2007-11-16 07:16:00 I took a tour of the American Apparel factory last weekend. Below is a video of what I was able to record. Also see what I wrote about them back in September. More About: Factory , Tour , American Apparel
Al Rivellino?s Bread
2007-11-13 09:18:00 My friend Elena’s parents (Al and Ellie) live in Kaiserslautern, Germany, which is south of Frankfurt. While I was in the area, I stopped by and Al showed me how he makes bread. Now when Al says “make bread”, here’s what he really means… he starts by getting spelt (a kind of ... More About: Recipes , Bread
Quartier Libre
2007-11-12 08:26:00 I spent a day at Quartier Libre , a restaurant in Brussels near the European Parliament. With many office workers wanting a fast, high-quality, meal for lunch, Quartier Libre aims specifically at providing that. You walk in and seat yourself and pick up a small piece of paper from the table. Each person ... More About: Restaurant
Au Repos de la Montagne
2007-11-10 04:02:00 During the month of September, I spent about a week working in a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium where I had gone to college. The restaurant is called Au Repos de la Mont agne and has been there for over 50 years under various owners. One interesting thing about the experience was that the owners, who also ... More About: Restaurant
Even the Q-tips are Organic
2007-09-18 11:13:00 I spent a few years in Belgium during college and remember how much time I spent with my host family and friends around the table enjoying food. Now I’m back for two weeks to learn more about the food culture I lived in, but to which I paid little attention at the time. The day I ... More About: Tips , Organic , Organ
San Pasqual Academy
2007-09-16 19:03:00 San Pasqual Academy is a high school for foster kids built on a farm. Okay, I’m simplifying a little, but I’ll share some more details later. I grew up skateboarding, so the first thing I noticed when I arrive might not be what other people see first. In fact, they probably wouldn’t notice it at ... More About: Vendors , Cade
Bernardo Winery
2007-09-15 15:26:00 I went to Bernardo Winery looking for San Diego made olive oil, but instead found a treasure trove of picturesque antiques. The winery was started in 1889, then bought by an immigrant from Sicily in 1927, and is still owned by the family now. The grounds are tastefully decorated with old things you might have ...
San Diego Soy Dairy
2007-09-14 06:57:00 San Diego Soy Diary is located off just south of the 8 in El Cajon. They make high quality tofu and soy milk which is sold to health food stores and restaurants. They start with soy beans which they purchase from the Mid-West, either organic and non-genetically modified or conventionally grown, depending on the product ... More About: San Diego , Vendors , Dairy
Chesapeake Fish Co.
2007-09-13 09:12:00 Chesapeake Fish Company was started in San Diego in 1915. The comany is so named because a major part of his business initially was selling oysters brought in from Chesapeake Bay on the east coast. In 2002, three long term employees of the company purchased it. Most of their seafood comes ... More About: Vendors , Chesapeake
Pottery by The Wheel
2007-09-12 21:10:00 The Wheel doesn’t have a website. People have never heard of them. They are off the map and that’s okay with them. In fact, they’re doing quite well with their low profile. I found out about them from Liz at Zenbu Sushi in La Jolla. Michael Totah, the owner of The Wheel, started ... More About: Vendors , Pottery , Heel
American Apparel
2007-09-12 04:47:00 Okay, I’m way out of the kitchen with this one, but I’ve recently taken an interest in American Appa rel . They have an interesting story, and a store down the street from my place. From the photo, you might just assume they are like the Gap or any other large, hip clothing store. But what ... More About: American Apparel , Pare
Winchester Cheese Company
2007-09-10 19:16:00 Winchester Cheese Company is the only artisinal cheese manufacturer in Southern California that can commercially sell their cheese. They are located in Winchester just north of Temecula, 70 miles from my place in Pacific Beach (San Diego). Jules Wesselink, owner of Winchester Cheese Company, was born and raised in Haarlem, Holland. He moved to ... More About: Vendors , Chester
Flying Up The Coast
2007-09-09 16:58:00 Recently, I’ve spent some time driving around San Diego county visiting farms. As I was driving, I was trying to put together a detailed image in my mind of the land we live on. I took mental note of the canyons, roads, hills, mountains, coast, green areas, dry areas, rural areas, urban areas, and other ... More About: Flying , Coast
San Pasqual Winery
2007-09-08 22:58:00 San Pasqual Winery is located at 5151 Santa Fe Street. I never new the name of that street before. I guess I just thought of it as a bike path between Pacific Beach and the UTC area next to I-5. I’ve ridden it possibly hundreds of times and never paid much attention ... More About: Vendors
Pacific Shellfish & The Fishery
2007-09-08 07:58:00 Pacific Shellfish was founded in 1979 by Judd Brown who was fisherman. In 1997 they moved in to a nice looking building at 5040 Cass Street in Pacific Beach here in San Diego and a year later opened a restaurant in the same building called The Fisher y. I spoke with Tim Mavrakos (tel: 858-272-9940, tim@pacshell.com) ... More About: Pacific , Vendors
San Diego Coffee, Tea & Spice
2007-09-06 03:35:00 I rode found San Diego Coffee , Tea & Spice this afternoon online. And what a nice surprise to find out that they are at 5026 Cass Street down the street from my place. This happy coincidence led to a short bike ride and a tour of their roasting ... More About: Vendors
Vegetable Stew with Crumble Crust
2007-09-04 07:30:00 Behold the Autumn Vegetable Stew with Cheddar Garlic Crumble Crust . Yes, the name is a little excessive. It comes from the Bistro Cooking cookbook. To make this dish, start with these ingredients. For the topping 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut in to small cubes 1 cup heavy ... More About: Recipes
The Stein Farm
2007-09-03 19:31:00 My farm is located at 1808 F Ave, National City, 91950. Okay, it’s not MY farm, but it is The Stein Farm , which is good enough for me. A guy named Charles Stein bought a few acres back in 1900 and ran the small farm, as well as doing many other jack-of-all-trades ... More About: Restaurant
In Search of the Perfect Egg (Farm)
2007-09-02 01:39:00 My goal over the past two days has been to find an egg farm that could deliver fresh eggs to the restaurant and allow me to bring customers there to see where their eggs come from. Near the middle of the second day, I found the perfect place. Come on a journey with ... More About: Search , Perfect , Farm , Sources
I Hope You Get Fat!
2007-09-01 06:31:00 My metabolism is so fast, that I’ve been struggling over the past few months to get up to 140 pounds like I used to be in high school. Good news folks… I drank a big glass of water this morning, got my heavy on, and stood on the scale. And it read ... More About: Hope
Parmesean Crisps
2007-08-29 09:40:00 Silpat. That one little word may change my life. I was flipping through the (incredibly large) French Laundry cookbook and happened upon this little gem. You know how cheese gets crunchy on the edge of pizza or when it runs in to the pan when you’re making a grilled cheese sandwich? ... More About: Recipes , Crisps , Cris , Armes
Taste of Slow Food
2007-08-28 03:27:00 Slow Food San Diego held it’s 4th annual Taste of Slow Food this Sunday at Orfila Vineyard. I couldn’t pass up the chance to sample food from so many different restaurants in one location that focus on local foods. Slow Food International was founded in Italy by Carlo Petrini after the 1986 opening of a ... More About: Restaurant , Slow , Slow food
San Diego Culinary Institute
2007-08-26 01:33:00 As a way of learning more about food in San Diego , I thought it would be interesting to visit a local cooking school. The San Diego Culinary Institute seems to be the best of the schools in San Diego, so I visited them. Plus, they were having an open house, so that made ... More About: Restaurant
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
2007-08-23 19:35:00 I was talking with some people the other day about an Italian game show where the contestants taste something and try to guess what part of Italy the food is from. I tried to find out more about this game show online, but nothing turned up. If you know anything about it, let ... More About: Restaurant , Cook , Kill
Seafood - Catalina Offshore
2007-08-15 04:07:00 I tire quickly with the philosophy and want to get on to the fun, concrete stuff… like where in the heck are we going to get all this fun, local(ish) food for the restaurant? I’m going to post occasionally on a possible vendor that we may or may not end up using. I’d ... More About: Seafood , Offshore , Sources , Catalin
Creating Something Out Of Nothing
2007-08-06 09:23:00 The restaurant project is about enjoyment and fulfillment in life through food. Let me explain. Over the past year, I’ve been watching a few plants grown on my patio and it’s been a life changing experience. I think growing plants is as close as we can get to creating something out of nothing. ... More About: Restaurant , Creating , Eating , Some
Portobello & Mozzarella Sandwich with Aioli Sauce
2007-08-05 08:27:00 Somehow garlic came up this morning. That conversation veered off towards portobello mushrooms (stuffed with roasted garlic). Portobello mushrooms took a sudden turn towards paninis and eventually I ended up making this portobello and mozzarella sandwich. It was a windy road well worth traveling. There are a number of steps in making this ... More About: Recipes , Sauce , Sandwich , Bello
Community Gardens Discovered!
2007-08-03 09:34:00 I’ve been having fun with a few plants on my balcony over the past year, but what I discovered the other day was quite amazing - there are community gardens all over the place! I’ve known about one at UCSD, but I always figured that was a special case. Basically a community garden is a ... More About: Community , Gardening , Gardens , Covered , Discover
Tofu Salad
More articles from this author:2007-08-02 18:50:00 I’ve never been a big tofu fan. It just seems so unnatural and futuristic. Not that it is of course, but the idea of eating a super food that is distributed in the form tasteless white bricks gives me that impression. Funny that I think of this ancient Chinese food as something ... More About: Recipes , Tofu , Salad 1, 2 |
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