Increasingly I find myself purchasing from the food underground, tiny businesses that could never find their way through the monolith of regulations. They are foods, god forbid, cooked in people’s kitchens. You know, kind of like the food mom made, but for some reason it’s OK if mom does it, but not OK to sell it to other people.
The delicious food you won’t see in grocery stores Melissa McEwen has nearly written a manifesto here — this is a must read for anyone interested in food, “free”, “real”, or otherwise.