Respecting Your Food

Hey Everyone! I'm alive and well just for the record. I got settled in down here in the great state of Texas and started working and so far I am having a blast! I hope to keep it that way but its so nice to be in an environment with professionals and a team that strives and is pushing hard to produce the food that they do. It's challenging and I'm walking in everyday and being challenged and asked questions, forced to think and at the end of the day, I learn much. It's literally this process of me learning new things constantly, every single day. That's where I want to bring up a topic to talk about, respecting your food. I'm fortunate enough to have the opportunity at the Inn that we have a farm. And part of me getting to work onsite is that I get to work on the farm. I get to harvest from our farm. The other day I was helping replant the shade houses with herbs. It's the feeling that when you get to get your hands in the dirt and see what your getting, food is life. And that food should be respected, it all should be respected, because food is something we take for granted sometimes. Its about seeing the value of everything from a carrot to a lobe of foie gras. They should all be treated with care to maintain quality, freshness so that they are at their full potentinal when served. But with taking care of food comes with the knowledge and learning how to properly store vegetables, how to ice down fish properly, keeping proteins fresh, etc, etc. So give some thought and care about your food, and care about where it came from and who harvested it, essentially making a full circle of the flow of goods from start to finish. -Garrett