11-9 SS Hunting Locavore

  I get a kick out of catch phrases and how people can brand old concepts and make them seem as though they’re a brand new idea. It’s kind of like re-inventing the wheel. On a recent hunting trip to Corpus Christi, I met and chatted with a very talented chef... Chef David Larousse. I watched him preparing a meal for 20 hunters as he chopped green peppers I asked him if there was a locavore movement  in Corpus. He chuckled and this is what he told me.

“If you want good food, cook it yourself said 17th century Chinese gourmand Li Li Wang. What is better than a home cooked meal? In your mind, how does this tie in with the locavore movement? To be honest with you, the locavore movement I was involved before it was a catch phrase.  In 1974 I ran my 1st kitchen out in Long Island and I used to purchase virtually all of my ingredients from local producers at the Eastern end of Long Island. I purchased all of my produce,  herbs, chicken from a local chicken farm, there was a duck producer where I bought my duck, I had a guy that went out fishing at 3 o’clock in the morning and he would bring me back his catch and that was my fish of the day. It was fun  to be involved in what is now called the locavore movement.”