If I were to open a restaurant...

[sazemisery]

it would be along the lines of this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/magazine/01food-t-000.html?ref=dining

Of course, he has the advantage of being close to one of the top small, humane slaughterhouses in the country. I would love to work in that kitchen for a year. I noticed in the article how they make a point of letting the reader know he is a Democrat in a red state. I hope they have great success.

[Warpy]

1. "Why can't this be done everywhere?"

Well, obviously because most of us were never paid enough to enjoy fine dining at the places that use humanely slaughtered meat from heirloom animals, that's why.

Face it, the only way most of us could afford animal protein was the way it was taken off the family farm and pushed into an inhumane factory system.

[hippywife]

3. We are going Saturday to a similar restaurant

that does use local product as much as possible. It's not the type of restaurant you eat at everyday, but it's a special occasion for Bill's birthday. We don't eat out much anyway because of the food system in this country that supplies the standard restaurant.

Combined, my husband and I make less than most single people do (I will tell you that I make around $18k/yr. working full-time) but we do buy all of our meat and as much other food as we can locally through family farms who do use small processing facilities which humanely harvests the animals. We do pay alot more for our it but it's a priority for us after learning all we have about big ag and the food industry and how little control our government really has in insuring the cleanliness and saftety and humane working conditions of our food supply.

This is something we do, along with many others around here, to alert the powers that be that is where we prefer to spend our food dollar rather than the garbage they heavily subsidize so it doesn't reflect the true cost of good, safe, clean, nutritious food.

It's not just a trendy thing to do. We just view it as something we can do not only for ourselves and our own health, but for the environment and the workers who toil under slave conditions in the major packing plants. We do it because there isn't any human blood or indignity involved in processing our food.

[sazemisery]

4. Is it in Tulsa?

Is it Local Table?

[hippywife]

5. Yep, it is!

Not sure what they'll have at the moment except for meat that would be local unless they are buying from growers who are maintaining hoop houses ala four season gardening.

He thinks he wants to go for lunch rather than dinner now. So not sure when we'll be there.

[Lucinda]

2. Great read. Thanks!

I had to muscle past the slaughterhouse start, probably not the wisest choice on the writers part, but I do really like what they are trying to accomplish. LOVE the fact that their vendors are mentioned on the menu too. It really does seem like they are building a food community there!