On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it??s interesting how our local dish Cioppino, reflects both neighborhoods.

It seems like most cities have their version of a local dish, such as New Orleans and Gumbo, San Francisco and Cioppino, Philadelphia and Cheesesteaks, and so on. On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it??s interesting how our local dish Cioppino, reflects both neighborhoods. Cioppino is a seafood dish that varies every day, based on what fresh seafood came in that day. If it??s done right, it changes daily, as the seafood that is fresh changes every day. And of, course, the seafood needs to local. On our San Francisco Food Tours, the foods seem to be the same way, they change according to what is fresh and it needs to be local. It reflects the way that we eat here, local and very seasonal. And when it is not is season, we just don??t eat it. In our neighborhoods, the foods of those neighborhoods are the same way. They tend to be very fresh and very local. The good news is that we have a wide variety of people who moved to this area, so almost everything that we want to eat is very local. The other good news is that our climate supports growing just about anything. The hotter the inside of the state gets, the colder that we get. It just pulls the fog or marine layer off the ocean. And at the same thirty miles away can be thirty degrees hotter. The result whatever we want to eat, it is available in the area. And at the same time, we only eat it when it is season and local Just like our local dish Cioppino.