Fresh Fish
I get my seafood from Ports Seafood, Inc., a high quality and locally based seafood company.  I only use seafood that is wild-caught and sustainably or environmentally farmed.  For more information, visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch page at http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp and the Ports Seafood, Inc. website at http://www.portsseafood.com.

Fresh Meat
I get most of my beef, lamb and pork from Niman Ranch, a company founded in 1970 in Marin County.  Niman Ranch practices the highest standards of husbandry protocols.  All of its livestock is humanely and sustainably raised on small family farms and ranches in the U.S.  Its livestock are never fed meat or animal products, they are never given hormones or antibiotics and their feed is all natural and vegetarian.  Niman Ranch also tracks its livestock throughout their lives and does all of its own slaughtering to ensure that there is no cross-contamination with other cattle.  Niman Ranch stands behind its meat as being the finest tasting and also the safest available.  For more information, visit the Niman Ranch website at http://www.nimanranch.com. Any other lamb, beef & pork used will meet or exceed the high standers of Niman Ranch.

Fresh Poultry
My poultry either comes from Petaluma Poultry or Fulton Valley Farms.  Both of these companies raise their chickens on ranches located in Sonoma and Marin counties.  Their chickens are never given antibiotics or hormones and are fed a vegetarian diet.  They taste great!  For more information, visit the Fulton Valley Farms and Petaluma Poultry websites at http://www.fultonvalley.com and http://www.petalumapoultry.com, respectively.

Fresh Produce
Cooks Company Produce is a locally based company with a wide selection of organic produce from many local farms and a customer list that reads as the “Who’s who” in the Northern California restaurant world, yet they don’t have a website!  I also buy directly from a variety of farmers at local farmers markets in San Francisco.

Occasional, I will receive my meat, fish, produce, etc. from other suppliers. This will not change the quality of the ingredients used in the creation of your meals.