Our forager Chris Padin, packing up the van this morning with some our #SoBeWFF brunch product.
Tune into 91.3 FM today at :35 past the hour during drive times and you may catch a WLRN Miami Herald News segment on how events celebrating product from local farmers, like our South Beach Wine & Food Festival Farm-to-Table Brunch, affect their businesses. Produced by Trina Sargalski and Anais Alexander, the story offers a perspective not many attending these events may think about, sharing interviews with Teena Borek of Borek Farms/Teena’s Pride and Margie Pikarsky of Bee Heaven Farm, both in Homestead. We weren’t able to include Margie in the brunch, but today were able to connect her with visiting chef Gabrielle Hamilton who was in last minute need of short grain brown rice for an event. She turned to Michael for help sourcing, and the best solution was locally-grown. Try calling Whole Foods or Publix for 40 pounds of short grain brown rice, and see what you turn up. Margie sells Sem-Chi rice, not short grain but a good alternative. It’s the rotation crop Florida Crystals uses to turn its sugarcane fields. Continue reading
