Specialty Produce + chefs road trip to the Santa Monica Farmers' Market

June 20, 2009 spbadmin 0 Comments

Thank you to all of our chefs & friends who made the trip in the early hours of the morning to the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market. We’d also like to thank Donna McLoughlin who provided us with many of these great photos! Chefs: Andrew Spurgin (Water’s Fine Catering) Donald Coffman (Water’s Fine Catering) Brian Sinnott …

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Sweet Syrah

June 18, 2009 Rachel Helmer 0 Comments

If you blink you just might miss the unassuming sign and descending staircase on the corner of 5th and E that lead you underneath Dakota Grill and Spirits. When you reach the bottom and come to a wall completely covered in lush green shrubbery you have arrived. Your not dreaming though your surroundings may lead you to believe you are, this is Syrah a dreamy new downtown nightspot for drinks, small bites, and delicious nighttime rendezvous.

Principi's Pizza: Bringing fire and the farmers market to Little Italy Mercato

June 12, 2009 Melissa Mayer 2 Comments

About two months ago I got a call about a guy with a woodfire oven on wheels (not your average trailer hitch) who was opening up his own stand at the Little Italy Mercato Farmers Market. After a few email exchanges and phone calls, I got the impression that he was just getting his feet …

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TGIP(izza)F(usion)!

June 12, 2009 Rachel Helmer 0 Comments

Whether you like your pizza piled high with meat or covered in veggies, sprinkled with vegan soy cheese or smothered with mozzarella and feta, Pizza Fusion has a pie that will please even the pickiest of palates. Located in Hillcrest on 5th avenue, Pizza Fusion has been serving up deliciousness in San Diego since Summer …

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FARMERS' MARKET REPORT: WEEK OF JUNE 14, 2009

June 12, 2009 Melissa Mayer 0 Comments

PERENNIAL WAVES OF GRAIN: Some serious sustainable food for thought… From Gourmet Magazine: By Barry Estabrook Wes Jackson’s now-grown children used to call him Dr. Doom. Kids will be kids, but that seems to be a particularly inappropriate moniker for a man with a keen mind and an impish sense of humor, who is putting …

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NACE "Top Chef" Competition at Specialty Produce

June 11, 2009 Kelly Orange 0 Comments

Thank you to everyone who made the NACE “Top Chef” Competition at Specialty Produce a grand success! We enjoyed dinner by ChileCo: * Catalina Offshore Uni Risotto * Duo of La Milpa Bok Choy wrapped Local line-caught Halibut with Pasilla Chile-Plum Sauce * Brandt Beef Oaxacan Oxtail-Masa Timbale with Koral Farms forked Avocado & Specialty …

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FARMERS' MARKET REPORT: WEEK OF JUNE 7, 2009

June 5, 2009 Melissa Mayer 0 Comments

You say To-May-To, I say To-Mah-To… Click on the link below for a preview movie of beautiful heirloom tomatoes in their early fruit stages… River Bottom Farms Heirloom Tomatoes MARKET REVIEW: Maybe I’m a softie this week, but for this week, I think it’s for the best… FOUR WORDS:  HEIRLOOM TOMATOES,  SUMMER SQUASH The time …

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FARMERS' MARKET REPORT: WEEK OF MAY 31, 2009

May 29, 2009 Melissa Mayer 0 Comments

SUPPLY VS. DEMAND: Supply and demand is an economical model based on price, utility, and quantity (available) in the market.  In a competitive market, the model predicts that price equalizes demanded quantities and quantities supplied by producers, resulting in an economic equilibrium between price and quantity.  Clearly this is in a perfect world… In today’s …

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The Taste of Little Italy

May 28, 2009 Rachel Helmer 0 Comments

When traveling one of my most favorite ways to get to know a new place is by going for a walk and tasting my way across town. Sampling all of the deliciousness that the local restaurants, cafes, and food purveyors have to offer all the while taking time to leisurely walk around looking at all …

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Lovely Lemons

May 25, 2009 Rachel Helmer 0 Comments

Nothing says, “hello summer!” quite like a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade. Now I know summer does not officially start for few more weeks but Memorial Day weekend always feels to me like the unofficial kick off to summertime. Particularly when it’s a warm sunshiny one like we are having here in San Diego. Luckily …

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