SF Vs. SF

As in San Francisco v. Slow Food. Hard on the heels of  Cuban v. Trump,  we have the Ferry Terminal Market Farmers v. Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini. Appropriately, this dustup is producing great big chunks of organic beef. As Mr. Badthings points out, neither party can claim the proletarian high ground. As such, from a distance, the whole thing smacks not so much of pots and kettles, but more of the oval dutch oven calling the round dutch oven Sonoma Green. More generally, on the heels of the response to the Richman article questioning the Bay Area's place in the culinary pantheon, the evidence suggests along with wine, cheese, arugula, all the other produce the region is famous for, Northern California is producing a bumper crop of thin-skinned farmers. On the other coast, bitching about the Union Square Greenmarket is a cherished ritual, but does not seem to provoke these kinds of self-justifications, and demands for apologies in response.