Originally Posted by
stvr
Take a drive through the Central Valley, note what is grown there, and then try to find it into incorporated into food items in a restaurant.
In speaking of agriculture, I found it interesting that in Miami I found many stores selling mangoes. But almost none of them were from the Homestead area, where they grow mangoes. They were all imported.
And in Texas it was hard to find Texas oranges (admittedly some oranges weren't labelled, so presumably they could be grown in Texas, but many that had an origin listed were from California).