You know how, in The Golden Girls, Rose was forever telling tales of men called Lars and fish called herring? Well we just came back from a dinner where you could cook anything you liked, as long as it was salmon. And it was deeeevine. I can see why Rose got all misty-eyed. Sure, there was a great deal more salmon on the table than you’d have reason to hope for, but then again, it’s salmon *season* here. Plenty of locally caught wild salmon around, and quite a lot around for sale at less than the $18/lb we paid for it. But, tush, the salmon itself was ace. Some cooked through cedar planks, like this:

Some cooked in mustard. Some in filo, some in lime, some with cajun, some with thyme.

Yes. It’s a rhyming sentence about salmon.

Point being, though, that there were more ways to eat locally, ecologically, and heartily, than you’d think. Alongside the salmon, local tomatoes, plums, endives and apples. And booze. Let’s not forget that Northern California does booze.

Props, then, to Marco Flavio, the gentle culinary disciplinarian over at Cook Here and Now, who put an afternoon of local and seasonal cooking and eating together. You can see pictures over at Flickr (use the CookHereAndNow tag).