Happy American Labor Day
Why does the world celebrate Labor Day on May the first and we wait until September? I hope you took today off. We at Rancho Gordo did!
The Rancho Gordo Blog
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One Reason Why Our Food Stinks
I recently was invited to a bean industry event that focused on field trials for beans. For hours, we toured acres of bean fields and heard the results. The beans...
Rancho Gordo's New Hot Sauce in the Press!
Our new hot sauce, Gay Caballero, made the Food section of the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. I'm just going to sit here and wait for the paparazzi to come, and...
RG on "In Wine Country" TV Show
Rancho Gordo will be one of the segments on this week's In Wine Country, a syndicated show available on most NBC affiliates. Also featured on the show are pianist Andre...
Ayacote Beans from Cholula
Two of my favorite friends, Sharon Peters and Connie Green, were traveling through Mexico and were kind enough to keep their eyes peeled for interesting beans for the Rancho Gordo...
The Heirloom Bean Book- It's a Reality
This last week we started our first photo shoot for Heirloom Beans: Recipes from Rancho Gordo. As if having a book coming out isn't enough of a treat, the photos...
The Local Foods Wheel
Maggie Gosselin works for CUESA, the producers of the Ferry Plaza farmers market, but she also has many other projects, like writing for Edible San Francisco and making a really...
Slow Food Part 4: Let's Ask Alice
I promise that tomorrow we'll be back to food, but today was an eventful day. I have some major national papers calling me about all this and unfortunately, the question...
Slow Food versus The Farmers and You and Me, Part 3
"The farmers need to develop a sense of humor!"This is what was going around as a quote from one of the organizers of Slow Food Nation on Saturday at the...
Slow Food versus The Farmers and You and Me, Part 2
There’s a wonderful singer in Italy named Mina. She’s known as the girl with an orchestra in her throat. At one point, Frank Sinatra wanted to take her on tour...
Slow Food versus The Farmers and You and Me, Part 1
Normally this space is dedicated to posts about soaking beans or pruning cactus. Unfortunately, a recent book by someone supposedly fighting the good fight for pure, good, local food has...
All My Darling Daughters
It seems every deadline I could imagine came up at once, including the manuscript to my book on Heirloom Beans. We've been having a heat wave and I was starting...