Veronica House

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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There were also restaurants, especially these 34 restaurants

locally owned restaurants who had writing on their menus that said something like, we source local or inorganic ingredients whenever possible.

And so I read that as a consumer and I think they are actively working to bring in local food and this is a restaurant that I want to support.

So that's my consumer read of the menu.

What it turned out to be was something really different.

Some restaurants did source deliberately local and organic ingredients.

Others, you know, might have like one special one summer where they're selling arugula, you know, using arugula from a local farm and that's it.

That's all they did for the whole year.

Or one of the most disturbing was a chef said that Cisco was the farm that they source from.

Yeah.

And, you know, this is like one of the largest national distribution companies in the States.

So that was problematic.

And then some had, you know, those cute blackboards that would list all of the farms they got their ingredients from.

And then we would talk to the farmers who said they had never connected with that restaurant at all.

So there was some, I guess you could say, lying or deception going on.

More common, though, was that chefs and restaurateurs genuinely didn't know what to do after the growing season ended.

They might support farms during the summer months, but then turn to Cisco or U.S.

Foods or Sodexo in the off months.

And so...

They genuinely were asking, what do we do to support local food if there isn't local food available here?

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