Taranta Going Green » Organic Products

A Recycling and Composting day with Taranta’s Staff

jduarte — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:16:01 +0000

Last Monday we did our first field trip with our Staff to the place we send our recyclable products, food waste and biodegradables. Our restaurant Staff has been separating all the waste and as a part of the process of understanding the reason why we do that, I decided to organize a field trip visiting Save That Stuff in Charlestown and Brick End Farms in North Hamilton. We met Adam Mitchell Ian Lavery giving us a tour of the facility and were amazed by the amount of cardboard and paper waste that can be recycled, as well as plastic, glass and metal. We drove about 1/2 hour and arrived to Brick Ends Farm, a site that receives all the food waste, yard trimmings, etc. We learned how they “cook” compost, using wood chips and yard wast on a 1 to 1 ratio with restaurant food waste, they mix it and turn it for about 10 months and the result is a very nutritious compost that is used in Agriculture and Landscaping. During the process thermophilic microorganisms generate heat that can reach up to 160 F. We met Mike, a farmer that leases land at Brick Ends and utilizes the compost to nurture his crops, his farm First Light Farm was the highlight of our experience, meeting him and walking the fields literally eating fennel, carrots, second sprout broccoli and kale was just amazing. We couldn’t resist to ask him if we could harvest some Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Cilantro and Fennel and bring it back to the restaurant. After this very educational experience we understand the importance of what we do and how good it make us feel!! Next… an experiment cooking in the compost pile using Sous Vide Bags, perhaps a some short ribs, cooked over 10 hours….. If anyone is ever interested on organizing a trip to visit the Farm, and have lunch or early dinner with products from the farm just let us know, we will be more that happy to arrange this for you.

Organic, Sustainable Farming and Biodynamic Wine List

jduarte — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:52:22 +0000

???????? ????? ??????????????We have finalized, after a long selection process, our Organic, Sustainable farming and Biodynamic wine list. The selection process was not easy at all, very confusing as many producers claim that their product is organic and when we asked for some sort of certification they claimed that it was too expensive to get and was not worth it. In the meantime more interest on Biodynamic and Sustainable farming was shown by wine importers and distributors and wines are available with certificates from the country of origin. We also found an “Carbon Neutral” wine from Cono Sur, Chile, made with organic grapes and carbon neutral, Cono Sur buys wind energy credits in Turkey to offset the carbon emission. We are please to announce our new wine list, to be in effect next week. The wines we selected are from Italy, Argentina and Chile.

Organic Cotton Chef Coats

jduarte — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:30:08 +0000

We found that Culinary Classics will manufacture 100% Organic Cotton chefs coats for $5 more on certain models, so we have ordered our chefs coats, made of organic cotton!

Fonseca “Terra Bella” Organic Port

jduarte — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:47:43 +0000

We are featuring Fonseca “Terra Bella” Organic Port, to continue our greening process we started to select few organic and Bio products. Terra Bella is a new port made with organically grown grapes and fortified with organically grown brandy from Fonseca. It’s vibrantly fruity, the glowing purple liquid edged with peppery spice. It’s intense enough to be dessert in itself. Enjoy!

Organic Espresso Coffee

jduarte — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:41:03 +0000

We are featuring 100% Arabica “Guglielmo” brand “Caffe da agricoltura biologica” certified by Bioagricert, we are happy to find an Italian Espresso coffee that is organic. We are looking for some whole roasted grains to continuing grinding or espresso bean, in the meantime will use Guglielmo. www.caffeguglielmo.it