baby vegetables

 

There's a whole section of "baby vegetables" at the supermarket—I find this hilarious.

By the way, it turns out that baby corn really is just baby corn--ears of corn picked early. All the web sites I've read about it hint at just how labor intensive it is to produce, since each little baby corn ear really is picked and husked by hand. This seems like yet further evidence of the decadence of our empire, that we trivially consume a food product that contains so much invested labor it ought to be a delicacy.

Baby carrots? Wikipedia tells me that these were invented here in California by applying an industrial potato-peeler to carrots otherwise considered too blemished to sell in the supermarket.

pasadena blog

Eye Level Pasadena looks like a pretty good local blog with great photography; I particularly enjoy the food photos.

That blog links to tableauvivante's Pasadena food blog. She had a great post about Caltech's Olive Festival that Bree and I participated in last Friday. I've heard that Caltech spent $100,000 on the festival!