Potato non grata

POTENTATE OF NADA

This is the icon I created for my Ethicurean business card. As some of you may know my lovely Bonnichiwa started a blog with my cousin Erika, friends Sarah, John, Holly and Kathryn, to explore the realm of SOLE food: Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethically raised: The Ethicurean. As an interested hanger-on and some time photographer of food I contribute under the name Potato non Grata and as Fred helpfully pointed out, I am the "Potentate of Nada" A perfect description if ever there was.
So this is the image for my business card. Like it.

The blog is starting to get a lot of attention as the gang of six erstwhile bloggers pursue fine dining and considered food choices. I have certainly never eaten better in my life and I am thoroughly loving meeting the many people in our personal food chain. We attend the weekly Berkeley Farmers market where we get stone fruits from Abel and Martheus and tasty meats from Taylor and Toponia from the Fatted Calf a charcuterie from whom we have gotten duck liver mousse for the last three (or is it four?) months—not to mention creppinettes of duck, rabbit and pork and the beef jerky—to die (and floss) for! And as we become acquainted with more of the people there they will be featured in Bon's blog.
Top of the organic/ethical restaurant food heap is Adagia, a wonderful reformed church in Berkeley where chef Brian Beach creates a wonderful everchanging menu of fresh/local California meals, with owner Daryl Ross as our patron Saint (you can see some of my Adagia food shots here. For the homecooked meals we try to get our meats from Marin Sun farms which Bonnie toured several weeks ago; meeting the farmer and the del ...icious animals. We get cheeses from Redwood Hill Farms and we have a CSA (consumer supported agriculture) box from Eatwell Farms—So, yeah, ultimately... we are neo-hippies in the Berkeley vein--but don't tell me we're not fucking enlightened eaters and aren't having the most delicious corn-syrup-free-not-genetically-modified-not-msg-d-hydrogenated-sorbitalled-food ever.
So as the world devolves into mass extinction, global warming, pandemic diseases, terrorism (people be hatin') genocide and starvation, rest assured I am eating quite well. And I will do this until ...I can't.

Oh and as a small aside, last Saturday our friends Susan and Monte brought over a delectable Nord Hollander (how did they know) cheese and a batch of spectacular grey salt/caramel chocolate squares.
I bring this up because of Monte's documentary: which will ultimately depress you and make you want to eat ...cheese ...and chocolate.

Oh and then, I want to give a big round of applause to Deborah for designing the Ethicurean business cards and helping Bon define/refine the website. She's good.