Farmers can be a funny sort. They work from morning til night plowing, sowing, and harvesting. Then they have to clean, package, and market their goods. I have a deep respect for the farmers who we work with. Today that respect was clouded a bit.
My greens farmer dropped off my order yesterday and said, "We don't have any arugula for you, and we won't have any more in the future." No heads up. I have a popular arugula salad on my menu and we are very serious about sourcing locally. I went on the hunt for local arugula and came up with nothing. I ended up at the local produce company because they said a pallet had just shown up from Earthbound Organics. I had to take what I could get so I headed down there. THE ENTIRE PALLET WAS ROTTEN. Earthbound Organics is a garbage company to begin with. They seem to be trying hard to hold up to that reputation.
I put in a menu change, but it has to go through a series of channels before it can get printed. Nothing like a bureaucracy to keep a chef from changing an item on the menu.
Good luck this weekend Chefs.
Thank you Mr. Minor
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Maybe I can find some arugula in the back alleys of Wilmington, DE
I'll ask him about greens to-night, but I'll probably end up with oregano and shwag that smells like formaldehyde.
So the salad change ended up successful. I changed it to spinach with kiwi berries, pomegranate and goat cheese. Kiwi berries are tasty this year.
What I love about them is that every server has to answer the question 30 times/day "What's a kiwi berry?"
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