Fulfilling Fridge

Describing The Slow Food Movement, I previously penned the line, “Fast food fills. Slow food fulfills.” Carole Griffin is a supporter of this movement. And her refrigerator certainly “fulfills” this philosophy.
“We eat in a sustainable way. We do not buy processed foods. We buy locally, organic. And if we can’t get local, we buy organic,” she describes. One peek inside her fridge reveals lovely radishes from Snow’s Bend Farm, McEwen and Sons cage free eggs, padron peppers from Jones Valley Urban Farm and homemade bread from her own Continental Bakery. For breakfast she enjoys the radishes sliced thin and sprinkled with coarse salt and the eggs fried. “The radishes are available in the spring, gone by mid summer. Then when they are available again in fall, it is like a holiday!” For a dinner appetizer, she sautés the peppers in olive oil until they blister and pulls off the skins. “They are sweetish and not hot. But every so often one is hot and that is exciting.”
Griffin has also been educated and influenced by books on the subject of real food. “My son, Isaac and I read Michael Polland’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma together. It is a life changing book,” Griffin says. Griffin has also read Polland’s In Defense of Food. She makes a weekly trip to Pepper Place Market, Finley Avenue Market and local ethnic markets to keep her fridge full of fresh and organic products. “At first I thought that getting organic food would be time consuming, prohibitive and expensive. But I have been pleasantly surprised that it hasn’t been that way at all!” •