Tuesday, January 3, 2012 16:32:29
Hello again, Stett here. Happy post-holidays. I’ve been quiet the past few months, but a lot has happened since you last heard from me. After the Food Forward road trip came to an end, my family and I moved to Sebastopol, Calif. Santa Cruz was great, but if ever there were a Food Forward town, [...]
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 15:37:13
After two months visiting farms, ranches, restaurants and schools across California the Food Forward road trip is shifting gears. I’m parking the Airstream and letting my family out while Greg and I and the rest of the team refocus our efforts on getting the pilot on-air and funding the entire series. We still plan to [...]
Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:06:18
Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice Beach’s main drag, is one of LA’s priciest stretches of real estate. Restaurant space goes for about $8 a square foot. As such, I expected more style over substance from the neighborhood’s food scene. So I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon Gjelina. The always-crowded restaurant isn’t exactly a secret, but [...]
Thursday, June 23, 2011 07:59:16
School lunch reform has become one of the rallying cries of the good food movement. It’s also a subject of great interest to me personally. Food Forward plans to devote an entire episode the subject. It’s a pretty easy cause to get behind, right? I mean, who can argue against feeding kids healthy, fresh food? [...]
Saturday, June 18, 2011 14:00:03
After two great days learning about the Burroughs family’s grass-based, organic dairy in Denair, Calif. we packed up the trailer and headed 90 minutes south to Fresno to visit another food forward dairyman–Mark McAfee owner of Organic Pastures. Organic Pastures is a raw milk dairy, one of only two in the state. Mark is a [...]
Sunday, June 12, 2011 09:27:26
The Food Forward road trip is focused on the positive changes happening within America’s food system, but it’s important for anyone interested in solutions to the broken system to understand the depth of the problem in this country and around the world. I came across a series of chilling reports written by the excellent Oakland [...]
Saturday, June 11, 2011 08:29:10
Our trip to California Cloverleaf Farms just outside of Turlock, Calif. felt like our first journey into the heart of Big Ag country. Cruising around the Bay Area and Northern California for the past four weeks was great. but somehow I felt all the small family farms were the exception to the rule. And the [...]
Friday, June 3, 2011 09:33:45
After leaving Bryan Kaminsky’s Natural Trading Co. in the Sierra Foothills, we headed down Instate 80 in search of Passmore Ranch in Sloughhouse, Calif. Owner Michael Passmore was another guy David Hill at Chef’s Table suggested we meet. We were all tired after a hectic schedule and didn’t know what to expect when we pulled [...]
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 22:29:43
One of the most pleasant surprises I’ve encountered after four weeks on the road is how welcoming and helpful people have been to me and my family. Part of me thinks, well, maybe they’re just being nice because they want media exposure, but I don’t think that’s true. My experience has been people working on [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 23:03:15
As impressive as Parducci Wine Cellars was, what really struck me about Paul Dolan’s Dark Horse Vineyard located on a 160-acre ranch above Ukiah, was its beauty. Dolan makes wine for Parducci and for his own brand of wine, Paul Dolan Vineyards. And what vineyards they are. Unlike most vineyards, Dark Horse is a wonderfully [...]
