food sources
2006-10-19 01:53:16.338742+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
A menu's pastoral descriptions may not be what they seem:
... Unfamiliar with White Marble Farms, I had the house-made spaghetti -- and took home a menu to research the company.
What I discovered surprised me. White Marble Farms is a brand of Sysco, North America's largest food services distributor. The pork comes from Cargill Meat Solutions, America's second-largest meat processor.
I think this is related to the realization we had that the spring mix for six or seven dollars a pound at Good Earth was coming off a Sysco truck, and was probably the exact same product we saw at three to five dollars a pound over at United Markets, and they probably both came from Earthbound Farms or an affiliated conglomerate.
And related to my fear that the "local farmer's market" involves products trucked in from far further away than the Salinas valley where the aforementioned spring mix originates.