{"id":96,"date":"2011-05-20T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-02-25T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T22:47:26","slug":"gathering-foodies-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Foodies in San Fran, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01_28_10-SF-Underground-Farmers-Market-011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97\" src=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01_28_10-SF-Underground-Farmers-Market-011-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01_28_10-SF-Underground-Farmers-Market-011-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01_28_10-SF-Underground-Farmers-Market-011.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Underground Farmers Market<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an article published in the April 10th, 2011 New York Times Sunday edition of the travel section on page 4 entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3DA1030F933A25757C0A9679D8B63\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Renegade Market Opens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>, author Brendan Spiegel writes about a group of new bee cooks, people with a knack for cooking and a passion for taste who are meeting at a monthly underground market gatherings around the city of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the city of San Francisco to sprout such a wonderful idea and the people of San Francisco to make it all happen.\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/foragesf.com\/\">SF Underground Market<\/a> as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called is a monthly meet-up group that allows its members to come together and for a small entrance fee ($5 dollars) to bring their take-home products and sell them.\u00c2\u00a0 The space that they use provide commercial kitchens and licenses where people interested in selling their cooking delights can become a part of the growing number of vendors we find at regular farmers markets.\u00c2\u00a0 The article describes how many vendors are finding this to be a way to get them established and grow into larger mainstream market places.<\/p>\n<p>Such grass-roots initiatives are ones that I find particularly attractive as places to not only find a delightful new way to cook up a hearty helping of kale or perhaps a good chunk of squash, but also a way to reconnect and support your community.\u00c2\u00a0 I like knowing that the dollars I spend at local market can be seen going to people who I recognize weekly by face and name and whom I take time to have a conversation or two about how life is going.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also an opportunity to try out a new recipe and see if your taste buds lend themselves to others and perhaps you may find yourself wanting to cook up more and take up a new hobby, or better yet a new entrepreneurial adventure.\u00c2\u00a0 If you attend the SF Underground Market or any of the other wonderful events listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/foragesf.com\/\">the website such<\/a> as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wild edible food walks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153underground dinners\u00e2\u20ac\u009d let me know what you dig up and hopefully you will come out belly full and chef inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in the April 10th, 2011 New York Times Sunday edition of the travel section on page 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