I have a special place in my heart for The Gaia. Even without meat on the menu owner, Rick Van Dam, has some of the tastiest food in GR. Their buckwheats are the best pancakes in town served with actual maple syrup. The Gaia cookies are addictive. And of course the mean green burrito. The combination of black beans, brown rice, and house made tomatillo sauce is well worth the lack of pork or ground beef.
It was also the first scratch kitchen anyone was foolhardy enough to let me loose in and where I met and worked with Matthew Millar whose better known for cured meats and pork belly than tofu and seitan.
Lots of history in a place that started out in the room that now houses the kitchen and used a wood stove for heat. It's the place that inspired me. It's the place that made me want to cook.
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It was also the first scratch kitchen anyone was foolhardy enough to let me loose in and where I met and worked with Matthew Millar whose better known for cured meats and pork belly than tofu and seitan.
Lots of history in a place that started out in the room that now houses the kitchen and used a wood stove for heat. It's the place that inspired me. It's the place that made me want to cook.
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