Through Treehugger, I stumbled across my new favorite food blog. David Lebovitz is, as Treehugger says, "a Paris transplant who spent years at the forefront of the US' local, organic movement as a pastry chef at Berkeley's Chez Panisse." His blog centers around his life in Paris, and many of his blog entries are unabashedly gastronomical in content.

In particular, this entry about organic foods in France caught my attention. Check out his photos of the delicate wild asparagus, real earthy carrots and the intensely purple kohlrabi. They're all gorgeous, and when you compare them to conventional produce, it's not hard to guess which one you'd prefer. I suspect that the reason the food looks so much more appetizing (even raw) is because it was picked closer to ripeness because it only had to travel a short distance from farm to market. You won't see food look like that at Whole Foods no matter how hard you try; you can only get access to foods like that through farmers' markets (or CSA programs... the food pictured has a similar "look" to the produce we have delivered every Wednesday from Full Belly Farm in Guinda, CA).

Lebovitz's blog is now on my short list... nice work, David.