Sunday, June 29, 2008

Hormone and Antibiotics Free Meats on our San Francisco Tours

On our San Francisco Tours, we try different types of local meats on our North Beach\Little Italy tour. What makes these meats excellent, in addition that they taste good, is that they are hormone and antibiotic free. As learn on our San Francisco Food Tours, good food should nourish your body. When meats are not antibiotic free, those chemicals go into your body. The result is that people are losing the ability for antibiotics to do any good for them, because they are consuming so many in their food. When meats are not hormone free, those hormones go into your body, as well. On our San Francisco Tours, we focus on local foods. When it comes to meats, that is incredibly important. When meats are not local, it becomes much harder to know what goes into your meats. As we learn on our San Francisco Food Tours, a local delicatessen and butcher are the best way to buy local meats, A local butcher can tell you where the meat is from and usually knows the suppliers. On our San Francisco Tours, the local delicatessen makes a special effort to carry meats that not only taste good, but are also hormone and antibiotic free. Just like the place where we try dim sum on San Francisco Food Tours in Chinatown only serves dim sum that they would feel comfortable giving to their own children, In the same ways, the delicatessen that we go on our San Francisco Tours, would never sell anything they would not give their own children. When food is produced and sold by local merchants, such as the merchants we have on our San Francisco Food Tours, the producers and the merchants have a connection with the community. That connection is only fostered when the community supports them. Consider that the next time you so go shopping.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Weather on our San Francisco Tours

We've had a unusually hot time on our San Francisco Tours. Admittedly, when we are on our San Francisco Food Tours, we think the 70's is a heat wave. The good news is that the cold eclairs that we have on our San Francisco Tours in North Beach is just the thing on a cold day. On the other hand, it never stays hot for long in San Francisco. The hotter the inside the interior of California gets, the colder we get. It just pulls the fog right off the ocean. On our San Francisco Food Tours in North Beach, we start we great coffee drinks, Just the thing on a cool San Francisco day, On our San Francisco Tours, the temperature is usually is the 60's. As we talk about on our San Francisco Food Tours, just about everything we eat here is grown within a short distance from San Francisco. Thirty miles from San Francisco, can be 30 degrees hotter. So just about every climate can be found in Northern California. On our San Francisco Tours in Chinatown, we try different teas. That tea can also be just the thing during the summers. On the hand, being a chocoholic, the truffles on our San Francisco Food Tours are good anytime.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Wine Tasting Results

We took a break from our San Francisco Tours and went up to one our favorite places for wine tasting, Healdsburg. As our guests on our San Francisco Food Tours frequently hear, my theory on wine tasting is that I think that best way to find good wine is to taste it and see what you like. Just like when we taste olive oils on our San Francisco Tours, I think that the same idea applies to wine tasting. in fact, some of the best wines that I have found come from small independent wines. As we talk about on our San Francisco Food Tours, food that is produced using sustainable methods tastes good. What is interesting is the same seems to be true for wines. As we talk about on our San Francisco Tours, organic food food allows you to really taste the food. Organic wine falls into the same category. I'm running across more winemakers who have found that producing wines organically produces better wine.

On our San Francisco Food Tours, we occasionally talk about how higher priced food isn't always better. In fact, food out of season frequently costs more. One of our tricks for finding great wines is stop in wines we don't recognize. On our San Francisco Tours, we only taste local foods. Just like on our San Francisco Food Tours, local wines are the same. The not only taste good, they frequently cost less. It is great bargain, organic wine, sustainable agriculture, great taste, and it costs less.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Corn Season on our San Francisco Tours

On our San Francisco Tours, we talk about eating locally. The good news is that on our latest trip to to farmer market, we found that corn is in season. As we mention on our San Francisco food tours, fresh food, in season has great flavor. The good news is that corn is starting to show up at the farmers market. As we talk about on our San Francisco tours, fresh corn in incredibly sweet. I'm not usually a fan of microwaves, however it is really an easy way to cook corn. Just take the corn in the husk, put it into the microwave for three minutes, give a quarter turn, go for another three minutes, give a quarter turn, then cook for a final three minutes. On our San Francisco food tours, we talk about cooking food simply. Fresh food doesn't need much to have it taste good. Fresh corn is like that. I like to eat it within a day or so of after I get from the farmers market. As we talk about on San Francisco tours, fresh produce has lots of natural sugar. The older the produce is the more the sugar breaks down and turn to starch. As we mention on our San Francisco food tours, the best place to get fresh foods is the farmer markets, so it is very fresh and really sweet. Some people like to boil corn, however I find that the water absorbs alot of the corn's flavors. On our San Francisco tours, we find the good foods is complex and has great natural flavors. As we find on our San Francisco food tours, good food has those great flavors. It doesn't need much more added to it.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Blueberry Season

On our San Francisco Tours, we love explore what is in season. Much to my delight, when I went down to farmers market, I was delighted to find that the blueberries from the Sierra Nevada foothills are coming into season. For the past couple of weeks, blueberries were coming from the San Francisco delta. The ones from the delta are good, however the ones from the Sierra Nevada foothills are even better. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we talk about pairing foods. Admittedly, the blueberries are great with other foods, however they are so delicious, you can eat them by themselves. When we try coffee drinks on our San Francisco Tours, we tastes the complexity of the flavors of the coffee and how great coffee doesn't need to be covered up with tons of sugar and cream. As we find on our San Francisco Food Tours, the flavors of the coffee can get lost when you cover them up. When blueberries are in season, they don't need anything. They are great just as they are. The same way that the truffles we try on our San Francisco tours have just enough sugar to bring out the flavor, but not enough to cover up the taste. Many people are used to bland berries, and assume that is norm, so therefore one has to cover them us. As we find on our San Francisco food tours, many people confuse old food with bad food. On our San Francisco tours, we emphasize the importance of eating locally seasonally and locally. However, eating locally and seasonally is not only good for environmental and economic reasons. As we find on our San Francisco food tours, it is also important because it tastes really good.