Bay Area Blogger of the Week #58

Chew The Right Thing

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The Ethicurean is a fascinating and informative group blog with a group of writers, several of whom are based in the Bay Area, who enjoy and respect their food more, by knowing where it comes from:

"...dedicated to thinking about food. Not just thinking about how to prepare it, or how it tastes — although those things are very important to us — but to pondering where and how it was grown and by whom, the distance that it traveled to our plate, and the less obvious effects of our consuming it."

Read more about their mission statement here. Regardless of their locality, these foodies with a conscience are a must drop in the RSS reader for anyone, anywhere in the world, who is concerned where their food comes from. I particularly like their regular news round-ups of interesting and relevant articles from press all over the globe and I love the amount of research they put into their articles too, like actually putting in calls to butchers during the San Francisco Chicken crisis of 2007*. You also get great tips from The Ethicurean - like this one for the locals - John Mackey (Wholefoods) is set to face off with Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma) and The Ethicurean tells you how you can get tickets. Head over to The Ethicurean and discover that everything you eat will be even more enjoyable for knowing where it actually came from.

*Looking for other chicken sources to investigate in the Bay Area? A couple more have come to my attention, but I havent had a chance to look into them properly yet:
Fulton Valley Farms (as eaten at Campton Place)
Eating With the Seasons
Please share in the comments, if you have any further information or points of view on either of these two chicken sources, thanks.



PS. My most humble thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Recent Food Blog Awards where I won the Best City Category. It is one of my aims to try and represent the best of everything food and drink the Bay Area has to offer, from market produce, through artisinal products, restaurants, charities to other local food bloggers in a way that will also appeal globally. To be recognised for that achievement means a great deal to me, so thank you all. I was up against some tough competition, please check out these other blogs with great city coverage: NYC Nosh | Blue Lotus | Kitchen Notebook | Londonelicious. To find out who the winners were in other categories please visit The Well Fed Network for the announcement.

COME BACK HERE TOMORROW TO FIND OUT WHO WON THE US WEST COAST PRIZES FOR MENU FOR HOPE 3!

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Bay Area Blogger of the Week #58