Saturday, January 31, 2009

New Beginnings and our San Francisco Tour

Like many others, we're joining the country in celebrating new beginnings for all of us.  On our San Francisco Tours, we're hoping this signals an openness to new ideas.  On our San Francisco Food Tours, this is an issue very close to us.  From our perspective on our San Francisco Culinary Tours, what we do on a local level affects not only our local community, but also the nation and the world. 

As we see on our San Francisco Tours, when we eat locally and seasonally, not only does the income stay in our local community, it is also reinvested in our local community.  As we see on our San Francisco Food Tours, we also lift others by not pitting one group against another. In words, the threat of cheap labor and poor working conditions in other areas,  pulling down our income, does not work if each neighborhood is buying locally and seasonally.  As we see on our San Francisco Culinary Tours, if each community is not engaged in a race to the bottom, we all get lifted up.

On our San Francisco Tours, we see the diversity of our neighborhoods. That diversity makes up all stronger.  On our San Francisco Food Tours, we see the commitment we have in San Francisco to support that diversity.  All of us are some kind of minority. As we see on San Francisco Culinary Tours, the "majority" has to make commitment to support the "minority". Otherwise, all of us end getting thrown to the wolves.

This new beginning we hope we see from our San Francisco Tours, is a desire to lift all of us up. Eating locally and seasonally requires that we see the longer picture. As we see on our San Francisco Food Tours, that means that we understand that when we support our local community, everyone gets lifted up.  That fact that we understand that when we are all a "minority", we are all responsible for supporting each other. On our San Francisco Culinary Tours, we see how our neighborhoods are stronger and our individual lives are enhanced when we support each other.



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