Charlottesville food

By Casey Ireland

Subjects: Food, Local foods, Virginia, social life and customs, Cooking, american, virginia, Charlottesville (Va.) -- Social life and customs, Cooking, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States, Cooking -- Virginia -- Charlottesville -- History, Social life and customs, TRAVEL / Restaurants, History, Local foods -- Virginia -- Charlottesville -- History

Description: "From the early days of ThomasJefferson's Garden Book at Monticelloto the hustle and bustle of the modern City Market on Water Street,Charlottesville has an illustrious culinary history. The city's cuisine ischaracterized by a delight in locally raised ingredients. The locavorementality appears at all levels of Charlottesville's food industry, includingthe nationally acknowledged methods of Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms, thesourcing of local pork for Chipotle's Charlottesville location and theaccessibility of regional ingredients everywhere from Whole Foods Market toonline favorite Relay Foods. Author and food enthusiast Casey Ireland explores how Charlottesville's residents have created a food culture that is all theirown"-- "A history of food culture past and present in Charlottesville, VA"--