The reason I ask is because I've noticed the quality of food at restaurants keeps going downhill as more and more immigrants get get brought in to work at these restaurants (especially Indians). I've been avoiding eating out because of it but now all the grocery stores have Indians handling the food I'm buying there. I also know that most food processing before it even gets to the grocery stores is done by immigrants with the quality of those immigrants likely decreasing over time (especially the last 10 years in Canada). There's no way rich people are poisoning their own food... so where are they buying their food from?
Do you think there's like a special rich person farm collective where certain farms produce food specifically for the rich elite only? Or could major food conglomerates also have a rich-person food processing division? Maybe, it's their Kosher division, etc... Anyone know?
Likely boutique and straight from the source. You're not going to catch them eating goyslop from Sysco or Tyson.
Depends on what level of rich you’re talking about and the region. The standard single digit millionaires usually just do more upscale food markets, upscale dining out, and some source meat and other things from local farms depending on their quality. When you get to the double to triple digit millionaires you get more variety, some are weird diets like fruitarian/ vegan/ whatever, some have personal chefs/ dieticians who source everything, and some, like my family friends, will pull out some elk they shot last week.
That’s the Midwest though.
Ahh, so you basically hire a Chef and make him responsible for finding the food sources.
I guess my question is how do these Chefs find the best sources of food? Is there a directory? Word of mouth? Do they drive to every farm and knock on doors? Ask to buy X amount of ingredients per week straight from these sources and then pick them up once a week as like a full-time job, basically?
If your client is that big of a name, you probably went to culinary school where they'll network you with vendors.
Ahh, so checking in with the Culinary Schools might be a good way to find places to source quality food from?
Correct. In becoming a "good chef" they'll spend a lot of time in the kitchen & learn first hand what sources are cheap, good or outstanding.
The high end restaurants typically order through some sort of service, who gets it directly from a warehouse distributor or through specialty stores. Proper storage & prep are very important.
Source: My (former) buddy was a 3-Star chef. That's 3/3 back in the day, very difficult to get!
Truly wealthy people have personal chefs and high-priced sources for higher quality stuff. You can also find better quality food at pricier restaurants, but even those are going downhill a bit.
Like what/where specifically? I'd be willing to pay a lot more for quality stuff.
Depends on your area. Source out local farms/butchers that aren’t shit. Some places you can buy whole cows/ animals if you have the freezer space. Upscale hydroponics are also a growing thing but harder to source as they’re very localized and usually small supply since they’re high demand by upscale restaurants and caterers.
The best food I can get is locally sourced so you're shit out of luck there.
You’ve inspired me too start buying beef from butchers instead of shoprite
The best meat you can get is locally grown and butchered, that isn't hard to find in most places in the US. I have a place by me that I can buy mass quantities of locally grown and butchered meat from. I don't do it because I don't have a chest freezer, not yet. Fruits and veggies, same deal, local farmer markets are the best place to go.
Most Americans go to the grocery store out of laziness, and lack of awareness.
Cooking from scratch on glass, cast iron, and porcelain is the most healthy way to prepare meals, but unfortunately these days it is mostly a boutique way to eat. Most people simply don't have the time to do it now, since both parents are working.
As a rich man, I can tell you that I invest in rural farms at risk of bankruptcy and instead of having them pay dividends in cash, I just ask them to set aside a bit of their produce for me every week. This offsets about half of my grocery shopping costs. I also shop at local markets to keep the cash in the hands of ourguys.
When I'm even richer, I'll have full ownership of plantations and provide excellent wages, housing and even full medical insurance coverage to my employees, make them WANT to work for me.
if you trip and fall into a vat of acid on Tuesday at 4:37 P.M. in Baltimore at the docks by accident, can you make sure to put me in ur will first?
THAT WAS NO ACCIDENT, BLACKROCK DID IT!
... man, wouldn't it be kickass to do the joker dance past their corporate building as it explodes...
Can you get ma a job now?
I'll get you something better. Learn to become self-sufficient and you'll never want for a job again.
Wait are you going to tell that to everyone going to you for a job?
Nah, you said your mom needs a job, but at your age you should be learning how to be self-sufficient.
It was a typo. I blew my chance
I’m not rich but I try to limit my intake of shit food too. In semi-rural Texas it’s trivial for me to get local beef but anywhere you are you might look around for a butcher shop at the least. If you are so urban you can’t find one or you want to save some money, you might look into a quarter cow and get a freezer and take a trek into the country every few months. The shop by me offers those and it’s usually a really good deal. Eggs I know of a couple farms but I usually lazy on that and buy the fancy pasture ones at the store. Same with chicken.
General rule for me though is to start with ingredients closest to their natural form. Maybe someone gross has touched that onion but that is nothing to the garbage processed shit you buy premade. If you’re looking for local fruits and veggies those will be very seasonal. Take a drive sometime during different seasons and just see. I always go out late summer and get some peaches from a shop about a hour away. It’s a nice time to relax too in a country drive. General rule if it comes in a box at the store I don’t buy it. I cook probably 85% of my own food with a large portion of the rest being stuff still pretty close to recognizable ingredients.
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I see an Indian handling food and I get a gag reflex. It may be from those street food videos but I don't care.
As for food sources, I assume they get their products from some local markets and farms that are are not run by immigrants but pricier.
For meat there should be good butcher shops somewhere in a large city. 14-day aged meat so typical in large stores is garbage in comparison to, say, 40+ days. But it's cheaper by quite a bit.
Farm raised chicken is a world of difference to "factory raised" ones. There should be farm groups or collectives that raise them the old fashioned way. Some even deliver to the city! But it's a once-a-year event to get them. I did it a couple of times, but whole chickens & a bachelor don't mix well. Yummy though!