{"id":243857,"date":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/going-slow-selective-isnt-snobby\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T07:00:00","slug":"going-slow-selective-isnt-snobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/going-slow-selective-isnt-snobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Slow: Selective isn\u2019t snobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brook Larios
\nColumnista SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Going<\/a>Sustainable. Organic. All natural. Slow food. Ambiguously swirling prose, waiting for the elitist ear\u2014and wallet\u2014to open? No, sustainable\u2014or slow\u2014food is inherently not about status or serving a small sect of individuals who can afford to attend a $5,000-a-head political fund-raiser. It\u2019s about eating wisely\u2014with joy\u2014and about consuming only what is needed. It\u2019s about being selective, but in a good way. It urges us to support \u201clocal\u201d\u2014local farmers, ranchers, restaurateurs and artisans. It\u2019s a commitment to community and environment. It\u2019s good for you, good for those who produce it and good for the planet. Symbiotic. It\u2019s the opposite of fast food. A culture. And one that is richly thriving in San Diego, especially in Uptown, the county\u2019s sustainable food hotbed.<\/p>\n

With more restaurants that source from area farmers, ranchers and artisans than anywhere else in San Diego County, the odds of walking skipping, biking, bussing or driving down the road in Uptown and snagging a fresh meal comprised of locally-sourced ingredients any day of the week is ridiculously high. Likewise, one can almost trip on a farmers market Wednesday through Sunday. And, with more small farms than any other county in the U.S., variety in San Diego is never an issue (but it is the spice of life).<\/p>\n

Over the coming months, I\u2019ll share stories of local restaurateurs, chefs and artisans who provide the best vittles on Earth. You\u2019ll read about the farmers and ranchers who tirelessly labor so their neighbors (you and I) may thrive. You\u2019ll learn about the challenges of our nation\u2019s broken food system and how to right those increasingly disturbing wrongs. Your eyes will open widely to the travesties of big agriculture and corporations that fuel the production of genetically modified food-ish items (see also: corn and soy) with myths of \u201cfeeding the world.\u201d You may even begin to close the cupboard on processed and pseudo foods, enjoying more energy than ever before.<\/p>\n

The best way to begin this satisfaction-laden journey? By meeting your local ranchers, growers and artisans. So roll up this paper and hightail it out the door, beginning with your area farmers markets.<\/p>\n

mi\u00e9rcoles<\/strong>
\nAdams Avenue Certified Farmers Market
\n3 to 7 p.m.
\n4672 35th St. (between Adams and Madison avenues)
\nadamsavenuebusiness.com
\n<\/a>
\njueves<\/strong>
\nNorth Park Farmers Market and Open Air Bazaar
\n2 p.m. to sunset (fall\/winter) or 3 p.m. to sunset (spring\/summer)
\n3151 University Ave. at 32nd (in the CVS Pharmacy parking lot)
\nnorthparkfarmersmarket.com<\/a><\/p>\n

viernes<\/strong>
\nMission Hills Certified Farmers Market
\n3 to 7 p.m.
\nFalcon St. (between Fort Stockton Drive and Washington Street)
\nourmissionhills.com<\/a><\/p>\n

s\u00e1bados<\/strong>
\nCity Heights Farmers Market
\n9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
\n4340 Wightman St. (between 43rd Street and Fairmount Avenue)
\ncityheightsfarmersmarket.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Old Town San Diego Artisan Farmers Market
\n9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
\nHarney St.
\noldtownsaturdaymarket.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Peque\u00f1a Italia Mercato
\n9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
\nW.\tDate Street and India Street to north side of Columbia
\nlittleitalymercato.com<\/a><\/p>\n

domingos<\/strong>
\nMercado de agricultores de Hillcrest
\n9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
\n3960 Normal St. at Lincoln (adjacent to the DMV)
\nhillcrestfarmersmarket.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brook Larios SDUN Columnist Sustainable. Organic. All natural. Slow food. Ambiguously swirling prose, waiting for the elitist ear\u2014and wallet\u2014to open? No, sustainable\u2014or slow\u2014food is inherently not about status or serving a small sect of individuals who can afford to attend a $5,000-a-head political fund-raiser. It\u2019s about eating wisely\u2014with joy\u2014and about consuming only what is […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1330,"featured_media":243853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Going Slow: Selective isn\u2019t snobby","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}