Day 347

Last night I watched Alice Waters (www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/) on the Bill Maher show. I knew her name and associated with cooking but I never really knew what she was about. She is a pioneer in promoting eating food in season and grown locally and is considered the creator of California cuisine. I feel really ignorant that I don't know that much about her. It makes me wonder what else I don't know. I am a big believer in locally grown produce. That's why I am such a big fan of the Farmer's market. I didn't know that there was a philosophy behind it and people and movements. I just know that the carrotts I buy at the Farmer's market are smaller but sweeter than what I buy at the grocery store. (I think I've covered the blue berries which are a thousand times better when they are fresh). Ms. Water's is the co-owner of Chez Panisse in Berkley. I've never been there but I have been to a resturant in Napa named Mustards Grill. Cindy Pawlcyn is the owner and she has a garden right outside of the resturant and according to their website, www.mustardsgrill.com, they have a two acre farm that provides at least 20% of the resturant's produce. This is probably one of the best places I have ever ate in my life. The only problem is trying not to get full before you get a chance to try everything. Check out the website and the menu. She owns several resturants in Napa but I keep going back to Mustard's every time I go up to visit.

I am trying to grow my own produce and my container garden in the backyard is coming along but I think I will not have anything to actually eat until late this summer. I planted micro greens and they have grown in pretty well. I'm not sure when they are ready to be cut. I think I want to try and convert some of my yard that is now covered with grass into a garden in order to produce fresh food year round but I am worried that I will treat the garden as I do my own body. I take really good care of it for a while and then I get really busy with something else and it falls a part.