Eating local is the latest crazy in sustainability. Across the West innovative restaurants have advocated eating fresh, local foods for many years. Some early innovators in the San Franscisco Bay area were Greens, a classic vegetarian restaurant opened in 1979, in the Fort Mason Center and Alice Waters’ famous Chez Panisse, opened in 1971, in [...]

Last week Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement offended sustainable food advocates in the Bay Area by declaring that the food at the Ferry Farmer’s Market was boutique-y and prohibitively expensive. Here’s the report from the SF Chronicle. Needless to say, this didn’t make local farmers, like Steve Sando, of Rancho [...]