At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
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Re: At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
#2I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
Re: At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
#3I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
it's super subjective until the government defines it and regulates it (read penalize mis-labeling).
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#4I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
It means knowing what farm the food came from if you're the diner, because the chef knows.
Rather than "Sysco" or one of its smaller competitors in the food distribution business.
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#5I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
I take it to mean the restaurant buys it's food directly from the growers.
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#6I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
Farm to table generally (or ideally) means the restaurant deals directly with smaller local farms for seasonal produce (rather than buying everything from a distributor).
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#7I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
The distinction presumably is between:
Farm --> Table
and
Farm --> A Bunch of Other Places --> Table
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#8I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
Farm to Table means the restaurant has vertical integration and quality control from farm to table.
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#9> “It’s really hard to find non-GMO produce,” Moran said.
Aside from the IP problems of patent-infringement-via-unintended-germination, I don't understand what's not to like about GMO. GMO seems like a great idea -- modern human medicine seems to include techniques that are similar to or just-short-of "GMO."
Are there any HNers who can articulate what they don't like about GMO?
Re: At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
#10I've never understood what "farm-to-table" means. Doesn't all food come from a farm? Is it supposed to mean "farm owned by a stereotypical farmer, not by a corporation?" If so, that's pretty vague and subjective.
it's super subjective until the government defines it and regulates it (read penalize mis-labeling).
You're right about that. The same thing happened with the name "organic".
Sadly, some restaurateurs have been taking advantage of the "farm-to-table" terminology.
In France and Italy some foods and wines have AOC/DOC designations meaning that the food item's name means was produced in a geographically defined place, usually with traditional methods and NOT from some random factory in another country. There are penalties in place for people that attempt to label a product with a controlled name.
"Farm-to-table" has a different definition than AOC/DOC, but there's a lot in common in spirit.
AOC : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%...
DOC : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominazione_di_origine_contr...