Natural Disaster and Eating Locally

On our San Francisco Tours, we talk about the effects of eating locally and seasonally. When we watch world affairs, we see how natural disasters affect communities around the world. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we see how local artisans balance a neighborhood. That is having local bakers, coffee shops, butchers, and so on. As we see on our San Francisco Tours, these local artisans help a community come together we things go wrong. When a community is out of balance, whether it be a lack of local artisans, or a lack of local food producers, communities are not able participate in their own recovery. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we focus on these artisans, Every community has similar artisans. As we see on our San Francisco tours, it is the support of people in the area that allows them to survive, As we see on our San Francisco Food Tours, on of the fun things to do in San Francisco is to shop in one's neighborhood. As we see on our San Francisco tours, while local San Franciscans enjoy shopping that way, that very act allows them to be there for us when we need. them. When an economy is out of balance, local artisans have been replaced by interests only concerned about maximizing income. The essential food producers have been replaced by whatever best serves those corporate interests. And we end up with a continual race to the bottom. For the sake of saving a few minutes, communities end up without local hardware stores. For the sake of "saving" a few dollars, we lose local food producers. As we see when we visit local artisans on our San Francisco Food Tours, the cost of saving a few dollars means that when communities lose artisans, shops, and food producers, they lose local vibrancy and the ability to support themselves. While one of the fun things to do in San Francisco is to support the kind of local artisans and food artisans that we see on our San Francisco Tours. That same point of view allows us to be a community and support ourselves in times of distress.

Cherries are in

On our San Francisco Food Tours, we talk a lot about eating locally and seasonally. The good news is that we are in cherry season. On our San Francisco Tours, we talk about how different foods have different tastes and subsequently should be paired with other foods. For example, on our San Francisco Food Tours we try different olive oils and compare the flavors. When cheeries first come into season, we first get the sour cherry, which are great for pies but not too good for eating. A couple weeks we get the bing and rainier cherries, which are perfect for eating. On our San Francisco Tours, we always talk about the importance of trusting your what you like. That's a good reason to go down to the farmers market and see what you like. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we learn how foods should be complex, rather than one-dimensional. For example,when we have coffee on our San Francisco Tours, we taste how the coffee has complexity. Fresh foods have more complexity, because the natural sugars are still there.

Fair Trade and Local Neighboorhoods

On our San Francisco Tours, we emphasize the importance of fair trade products, Fair Trade products are grown in environmentally sensitive methods and the people who grow them make enough to actually feed themselves and their families.  On our San Francisco Food Tours, many guests comment how wonderful the neighborhoods are in San Francisco, How people look out for each other, they care about other. On our San Francisco tours, our guests enjoy meeting local artisans. Neighborhoods like these do not happen, unless one starts from the assumption that it does matter what happens to some else. On our San Francisco Food tours, many of our guests comment how that this no longer exists back home. The more one insists on fair trade products, the more neighborhoods get created, as many people in a community take responsibility for each other. On our San Francisco tours, we can see the result, people shop locally, so we have local butchers and bakers. On our San Francisco Food tours,  the local food artisans may not be "cheaper" than a major grocery chain. However, the result of cheap food is that you lose local artisans. And eventually, the good income that you get from your job is less, because some else is cheaper than you are.  Maybe not down the street, or across town, but maybe in a different state or country.

On our San Francisco tours, everyone we deal with benefits from what we do. On our San Francisco Food tours, that philosophy helps to build local neighborhoods.  The neighbors we visit on our San Francisco tours do not have to be some thing you only visit on our San Francisco tours. By buying trade foods, shopping local artisans, you can start to create the same kinds of neighborhoods we visit on our San Francisco Food tours.

Start of Cherry Season

On our San Francisco Tours, we love to keep on what is in season.  The good news is that cherries are starting to come into the market. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we talk about pairing foods. Since the cherries coming into the market are sour cherries, they are great in pies, however if you have ever eaten a sour cherry, they are little too tart to eat raw. On our San Francisco Tours, we try different  kinds of food to see how different food have different flavors. Our San Francisco Food Tours, you'll find how it is really a case of what do you personally like. Our San Francisco Tours try to emphasize how important it is to trust yourself.   So, as you'll find on our San Francisco Food Tours, if you like to eat sour cherries raw, that's great. You are the best judge of what you like.