- Kaitlyn McQuaid/Good Food Festival
- Edible Alchemy presentation at last year’s Good Food Festival
If you like the fact that chefs buy directly from farmers, who grow crops from seed banks and also sell to retailers like Whole Foods, one of the things you should thank for that state of affairs is the Good Food Festival, which will have its 11th annual meeting March 19 through 21. The most visible part of the event is Saturday’s public festival, which will host a wide range of vendors including CSAs and local food producers of various kinds, making soaps and jams and local honey and who knows what else. The CSA part is perhaps the most helpful; if you’re thinking of buying into one this year, this is your chance to actually meet the farmers and scout out which ones offer the program closest to what you want. (You can prep for this a little bit at the Local Beet, whose 2015 CSA guide just came out here.)
• Last week I mentioned the misfortune that befell the excellent Chatham-area soul-food breakfast-and-lunch spot 5 Loaves Eatery, whose electrical wiring was stolen off its building to sell as scrap copper. The first time that happened the place was closed for two and a half months, but this time it’s recovered much more quickly and in fact was serving again this weekend. One thing that helped was the It’s a Wonderful Life-style rallying to the restaurant’s side on the part of the community, which you can read about here. Check out 5 Loaves’ story, then do yourself a favor and have breakfast there sometime.
