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Organic lemons from the Farm

Don’t forget to take home some locally grown fruit at 25 cents a piece.  All fruit is grown on our organic farm in De Luz.

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So what is chipotle?

Ever wonder exactly what chipotle is?  Look here for starters, and then read this.

Suggestions

Ok, I know that our menu is HUGE.  The daytime menu is like a short novel.  Not quite in the Charles Dickens range, more like Steinbeck.

People ask all the time: “What do you recommend?”

So here goes…

1.  Breakfast: Try the frittatas.  They are basically omelettes with everything scrambled together.  My favorites are the Frittata Mexicana and the Frittata Espinaca.  Make sure you ask for the chipolte salsa, and I recommend getting avocado with almost everything (it’s an extra 75 cents and well worth it).  For the veggie crowd: try the vegan burrito (under the breakfast burrito list).  It comes with a choice of two sides (rice, pinto beans, potatoes, or fruit).  Very popular!

2.  Lunch: The fish tacos are super good.  You can order salmon, mahi mahi, or sole tacos.  They can be prepared in a variety of ways: grilled with lemon, or garlic, or cajun style.  The tacos are made so that you can build them yourself: you get tortillas, salsa, lettuce, beans, and rice.  For the veggies: the tofu stir fry is excellent.  Grilled tofu and veggies over brown rice, topped with a little terryaki sauce.

3.  Dinner: We have a new special: Vegan Pesto Pasta.  That’s right, vegan pesto.  It’s a very light version of pesto, and it’s good.  Comes with grilled vegetables.  Second recommendation: The sundried tomato spinach past WITH cajun chicken.   It’s a really yummy pasta that will definitely satisfy a very hungry person.

4.  For dessert, we have a new item: the vegan apple crisp.  These are made every night, and have been selling really well so far.  A good finish to a nice dinner.  You can ask for either soy or regular ice cream.

Work Shots

Just another Monday night at Hill Street.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy new year, feliz año nuevo, and all that good stuff.  I can´t believe it´s already 2009.

Anthropology and the Human Diet

Check out this short article by anthropologist Clark Spencer Larsen about the human transition from hunting, gathering, and foraging to agriculture.  Pay close attention to the parts where it mentions the impacts upon human health:

Within a remarkably short period of time following the Pleistocene — when climate, vegetation, and fauna became essentially modern — human populations worldwide adopted plant cultivation as a subsistence strategy. The widespread extinction of various megafauna (e.g., mastadon, mammoth) and other animals may have been an impetus for human populations to begin to develop wholly new means of acquiring food in order to meet protein and fat requirements. Whatever the cause, the change in diet had profound implications for nutritional ecology, health, and behavior in human beings.

Read the rest here.