Oceans & Earth in Yorba Linda Shows What Farm-to-Table Can Really Mean

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • May 5, 2016
Restaurants have so overused the buzz phrases farm-to-table and farm-to-fork over the past decade that they have pretty much lost their meaning, as a devastating exposé by the Tampa Bay Times recently showed. When someone told me about Oceans &...
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