Plated Earth

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a French spy who traveled to Chile in the 1700s on an expedition entrusted to him by Louis XIV. By his own account, we hear how and why this French spy came across the Chilean strawberry, which he brought home to France, opening the door for the cross between Chilean and Virginia cultivars – the ancestors of our modern-day beloved strawberry.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a mystical fig tree that is not bound by time or space. The tree itself recounts its memories of visitors who came and went beneath its branches throughout time and across cultures, from Adam and Eve, to Buddha, to Romulus and Remus, and more.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of an old Samurai who suffers tragic loss, but finds solace in his ancestors’ cherry tree, which is growing in his yard. It is a re-telling of a well known Japanese ghost story, Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of Thomas Jefferson’s passion for the gardens of Monticello through his own written word. This letter, addressed to Monticello itself, recounts Jefferson’s memories of the garden’s history, evolution, and future aspirations, and confesses some of Jefferson’s favorite produce items amongst the vast varieties.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration. This week’s Food Buzz is in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday!

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a chef who meets an intriguing, story-telling stewardess named Misty on his long flight from London to Los Angeles. Misty divulges the history of her former babysitter and first woman stewardess in history – Ellen Church – and how she’s been able to maintain a connection with Ellen through their hometown favorite vegetable: asparagus.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable follows an aspiring young journalist in Los Angeles on her quest to uncover the roots of the popular café trend, avocado toast. Her investigation takes her deeper into the history, cultural relevance, and politics of the avocado than she could have imagined, challenging her own relationship with the delicious, fashionable fruit.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration. Sources: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5563805 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/22/the-sudden-rise-of-the-avocado-americas-new-favorite-fruit/?utm_term=.8c554d515acf https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/a-brief-history-of-avocado-controversy/514748/ http://time.com/3944055/president-obama-guacamole/ https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/my-fruitful-search-for-the-origins-of-avocado-toast

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of the pomelo’s value in Chinese culture as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and family unity. It follows a Young Man’s journey around the world, from Malaysia to China, Israel, Greece and more, as he seeks to find his love, Clementine. With a little bit of luck – and a pair of pomelos – he just might find her.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is set in 1849, during the gold rush in California. We meet Little Brother, who is on a mission to save his gold-mining Big Brother from Death. Big Brother is suffering from scurvy, and rumors lead Little Brother to believe that a cure can be found in a different kind of gold – citrus. Through the brothers' journey to William Wolfskill’s orange orchard in Los Angeles, California, Little Brother discovers more powers of citrus than he imagined as he uses it carry on his brother’s legacy.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Meet the Plated Earth hosts, story-tellers, teachers and producers: JJ, Chris, and Kelly. Christ and JJ, the brains behind Plated Earth, interview their producer, Kelly, about why the Specialty Produce App is such an essential piece of history and modern day produce knowledge. Kelly flips the interview to give you a better look into who Chris and JJ are, and their produce mission!