Passion For Local & Antimicrobial Strategy Meetings

Passion For Local & Antimicrobial Strategy Meetings

I’m Lacy Gray with Washington Ag Today.

Executive Chef Antonio Campolio and his staff at the Marcus Whitman Hotel’s The Marc Restaurant in Walla Walla are passionate about food, using ingredients that are for the most part locally sourced, foraged, harvested, and grown around that agriculturally rich region. In fact, this past December Chef Antonio and his staff were honored with the opportunity to cook at the James Beard House in NYC for a  very prestigious event highlighting Washington’s food and wine industry. As part of that six course dinner Antonio served Dry-Aged Double R Ranch New York Strip, which he says is simply the best.

CAMPOLIO: I’m proud to represent Double R Ranch because the quality of the beef I think is stellar and then also because the footprint that they leave is so small in terms of like being green. I think that’s huge - trying to bring everything back home and the fact that they’re in Washington state. They only goes as far as pretty much Portland to be slaughtered and then they come right back. I think that’s great.

Olympia will be one of the locations this spring as part of a series of five meetings being held across the country by the FDA to discuss its strategy to reduce antimicrobial use in food-producing animals. The FDA says the meetings will provide the public with the opportunity to discuss and provide feedback on the challenges faced by livestock producers and veterinarians as the FDA phases in veterinary oversight of the therapeutic use of certain medically important antimicrobials. For meeting dates and locations visit the FDA website.

I’m Lacy Gray and that’s Washington Ag Today on the Ag Information Network.