Ostrom, also the founding director of Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, has devoted her career to studying the interaction of people and natural resources.
“Until her work, the thinking was, ‘let the state intervene,’” said Paul Dragos Aligica, a political scientist at George Mason University. “‘If you leave it to individuals [...]
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13 Oct
Nobel prize for local land management
20 Sep
Cheese Obsession
Anthony Bourdain is making my Sunday morning by talking about cheese, bacon and onions. Inspiring me to get sauteing.
Cheese is one of those few foods that you can’t source locally (at least not all varieties) from Northern California. This is where my definition of ”local food” expands to include, well, basically all good, real food. (I mean, [...]
29 Aug
Asian Dumplings
From one of our first-ever customers, Andrea Nguyen: Congratulations Andrea!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
At last, the waiting is over! I’m thrilled to inform you that my new book, Asian Dumplings, hit the shelves on Tuesday. Coincidentally my very dedicated publicist Kristin Casemore went into labor that morning too. Not to worry, all is well and both [...]
24 Jul
Summertime Grilling
I love summer. On the ranch, it means warm nights and BBQs with friends. We have a custom-made, mobile grill that works really well for feeding a crowd. It attaches to a pick-up truck with a trailer hitch and can go where the crowd is. In the past few weeks, we’ve used it to grill [...]
19 Jun
The First Millimeter: Healing the Earth
Took a road trip last weekend to one of California’s most spectacular places, a hidden gem along nine miles of unspoiled coast called the Hollister Ranch. Located in Gaviota, the ranch is about 20 miles north of Santa Barbara. Joe was invited to speak after the showing of a new PBS documentary titled “The First Millimeter: Healing the [...]
22 May
Field Day Authenticity
We held our annual Field Day this week, one of my favorite parts about direct marketing real food. About 100 customers came from all over the Bay Area to take a walk on the ranch, meet the Morris Grassfed Team, and learn about how their beef is produced. We also get to meet our new customers and [...]
8 Apr
Cooking as therapy
Been a rough week in the Morris house. Sarah, our 14-going-on-21 year-old daughter started complaining about stomach pains Sunday evening. By 3 a.m. Joe and I were standing behind a one-way window watching our 88 pound little girl (she is still a little girl in my eyes!) rolling into the tube of a CT scan machine at the [...]
14 Feb
Sweet Workers
My friends Mike and Tai are making their own honey: Sweet Workers. It is sweet, and it’s as local as you can get: they make it in Mike’s San Francisco backyard.
I love these guys. Lived next door to Mike as a student in Florence, Italy. We were all there as part of the California State [...]
20 Jan
Celebrating change
Local restaurants made the 44th president’s inaugural speech, although not for any commendable reason:
“This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed – – why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty [...]
13 Nov
“All politics are local politics”
“All politics are local politics” ~Tip O’Neill
Tip would probably agree that like politics, much of our food comes back to what is local. In the recent presidential campaign there was not a lot of talk about agriculture. The talk of pigs had to do with lipstick, not a succulent roasting recipe.
Now that we can get back to the [...]
