Chipotle began using sustainably raised ingredients about twelve years ago, Arnold said, starting with pork from Niman Ranch, whose hogs are raised without antibiotics, on open pasture or in roomy enclosures layered with hay or other bedding.
Our side featured good people arguing for real, mostly simple cooking done with fresh, well- raised ingredients, a retreat from convenience and overly fancy stuff and a return to the basics.
A double storefront, with uncovered floors and plain tables, this is a Twin Cities Cafe Chez Panisse, with short weekly menus and a commitment to "locally grown, organic and naturally raised ingredients".
Chef Sam Hayward of Fore Street in Portland, Maine, has been working with local producers for over three decades continuously seeking out locally raised ingredients and integrating them into his menus at the various culinary establishments he has been associated with through the years.
He compensates for the not-entirely-from-scratch approach, he said, by buying and growing the best produce available, raising some ingredients in his backyard.
Like other chefs of his generation, Plascencia is inspired by materia prima: ingredients raised in the area he considers his territory, from Los Angeles to San Quintín, a fishing village a hundred and eighty miles down the Baja coast from Tijuana.
A sustainable street meat event will take place Sunday at the New Amsterdam Market, on South Street at Peck Slip at the South Street Seaport, with five Vendy Award-recognized vendors participating in a challenge to recreate their signature dishes with humanely raised meats and ingredients sourced from local Greenmarkets.
A Benefit for Farmers A cocktail party sponsored by the Greenmarkets to benefit the new farmer-development project for immigrant farmers who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Irene will be held on Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Sueños, 311 West 17th Street, with Mexican dishes by chefs using ingredients raised by the farmers, as well as drinks; $80.12: nfdp.eventbrite.com.com
"The food we serve should be made with ingredients raised with care for animals, farmers, and the environment," the company said on its website.
By the end of the year, Kraft predicts that the rising cost of raw ingredients will raise its costs by $650 million to $700 million.
