Day 7: Cooking Class and the Underground Farmers Market

I was lucky enough to snag a seat at a free cooking workshops thrown by the Art Institute of California. (Read about it in the SF Gate)  I'm sure it's a fishing scheme to try to snag wide eyed home cooks into going to school there, and I'm quite sure that I will wish to be snagged.  I think that it would be really great to go back to school for something I love as much as cooking.  Unfortunately I've grown a practical side and it would be hard to swallow that much (more) debt.

After I get out of that in the evening, I'm going to be heading over to the Underground Farmers Market.  It's a market for the cottage industry and home cooked foods from all over the Bay Area.  Overall, I really support this movement, probably because I have one foot in the door of participating in it.  The whole movement, along with CSA's (Mine is Terra Firma Farms) and other non-traditional direct-to-consumer food distribution schemes is a great way to support my local economy in creative ways.  I love giving my money to people that I've met, face to face, for products that are worth every penny.

See you there!