Shameless Plug

Hey everyone!

This is my first post to this particular blog and yes, I am using it as the afore-mentioned "shameless plug". I figured since it has to do with localities (spelling?) and you are reading this blog because you want to know all about them (nudge, nudge) that I would use this opportunity to make you aware of a particularly cool event happening this Saturday.

Most of you may be aware of the Downtown Phoenix Public Market held every Saturday (and Wednesday) at the corner of Central and McKinley. This upcoming Saturday November 1st, Slow Food Phoenix (which Jen and I are very proud to be members of; check them out at slowfood.com and slowfoodphoenix.org- yes another shameless plug I apologize) in conjunction with the Phoenix Permaculture Guild is hosting the Annual Mesquite Milling Event at the market and would love for all of you to be there! If you happen to have some mesquite pods lying around, bring them and we will have them milled for you or will provide you with some tasty recipes as well as yummy samples so you can taste what this native Arizona plant has to offer.

Hope to see you there!

Celebrity Sightings

It's been a while since I've posted but I guess it's been that I haven't been inspired. Geez, that's a long time. I think April was the last post. Oh well, here I am now.

I worked the Edible Phoenix booth this last weekend during the Eats3 event in Scottsdale. I had a wondeful time getting to know Natalie who is basically me but she actually went to culinary school. Anyway, we hit it off great and we talked about how we wanted to get more involved in the local food world and I'm thinking it'd be cool for us to start a blog about local food here in Phoenix. I know there are others that are mainly restaurant review sites, but hey - I'm a stay at home mom and I just don't go out to eat much anymore. So, I think it'd be cool to write more about the local food scene, from the other perspective.

If anyone is out there reading this. Let me know what you think.

In the meantime, here are Chef Ming Tsai's and Top Chef's Stephanie's autographs.