Comments on: A Taste of Hampton Roads’ Future

By: Kim Austin-Peterman

Kim Austin-Peterman — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:25:36 +0000

Glad you enjoyed yourself! It’s nice to hear your enthusiasm around the local food scene too. Cheers!

By: Grant Cothran

Grant Cothran — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:58:47 +0000

I happen to like Chili’s.

By: Jesse Scaccia

Jesse Scaccia — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:56:20 +0000

Who are the grass-fed cattle people? I’d love to check them out.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:34 +0000

Sounds fabulous! I love eating out and eating well and avoid chain restaurants like the plague. That being said I have a couple of semi-depressing comments:
1. Local restaurants do not pay their chefs well. You can’t get an educated chef and you probably can’t get and *keep* a talented young one for $30k per year. Chefs in most metro areas make 3 or 4x that amount of money.
2. I have a friend 35 miles from downtown Norfolk who raises grass fed cattle and Can. Not. Sell. Them. I’ve tried putting him in touch with ‘people’ but he lives in NC. Selling a ‘value-added’ product across state lines is a problem. Honestly though, if a chef’s look hard enough, spends enough time chatting with farmers–even via email–they will find local beef *locally*. Why not try buying it ‘on the hoof’ instead of in tidy little packages. Most farmers will gladly transport your beef to the abattoirs for you.
Hell, for 6 years I was raising organic, grass-fed lamb and no one wanted it. Except our Muslim friends on their holy days. Local, grass fed, organic lamb–sounds like something a chef might like, right? No such luck.
Local Harvest is one good source of this information, Eat Wild is another. Agriculture and Eating culture need to find a way to get hooked up, even if they practice polyamory.

By: Tanya Kaish Keller

Tanya Kaish Keller — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:30:11 +0000

Thanks, Jesse. You captured the event. I even won a great cookbook at the silent auction.

By: Lucien

Lucien — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:04:58 +0000

I wish I had known about this. Sounds like it was a great experience.

By: Lauren E Cordova

Lauren E Cordova — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:44:49 +0000

This sounds like an amazing event and I could have attended. I will be looking forward to experiencing each of these restaurants and their menus :)

Not bad at all for a rough article :)

By: Missy Schmidt

Missy Schmidt — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:37:38 +0000

You said it all with, “Home isn�t just a building, or a city, or a region. Home is a feeling you get when you�re somewhere or you�re doing something that just feels right.”

I love AltDaily!

What a great event: I felt like I was dining with 300 of my closest friends last night, didn’t you? I never waited – or wanted – for anything, ‘cept maybe my cozy robe and slippers when I realized that I’d tasted one too many sumptuous dishes.