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(classical music)
- The earth is my ingredient,
and I embrace it with all of my heart.
Never letting human invention or tools
taint its natural perfection.
At Farme, I cook in the spirit of the best chef I know,
my mother,
Mother nature.
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Everything must be fresh
at all costs.
My restaurant is about something,
it's not just food,
it's not just eating,
in fact, sometimes it's neither of those things.
- Julia cares about the environment.
When she started she would ask questions like,
where did this is food come from?
How did it get here?
Why don't you know?
Why are you sweating?
Where are you going?
Oh you think I can't outrun a motorcycle?
- [Vendor] Have a great day.
- Are these strawberries local?
- Yeah, they're grown like 50 miles down the road.
- Oh, really?
So, to you, using a car to transport strawberries
dozens of miles is local?
- Well, I mean-- - Tell me what you mean.
- It-- - Go on.
- I didn't always understand myself,
that's why my first job was at a Salads, Only!
Their food was criminal,
they bought frozen corn,
they got pears from a store,
they washed every dish before using it.
There was too much human interference.
- One time I made her a birthday cake,
and she called poison control.
- Return from whence you came. - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Return from whence you came, my beautiful babies.
- Whoa, whoa, lady would you please stop?
- She's always been a nut.
- At some moments, I wondered if I'm losing my zen.
If I was losing my connection to what the ingredients were.
I'm taking the beauties from the land.
So that's when I quit.
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When people asked why I started Freshe,
I said, "I'm on the hunt for the perfect tomato."
They laughed,
but I wasn't joking,
nor have I ever joked.
Food can only be natural and fresh
if it is as mother nature intended
with no middle man interfering with her design,
why would you want to tamper with her creation, anyway?
Would you try to interfere when Michelangelo was painting?
Would you tell DaVinci that his sculpture was too close
to a radioactive site?
But some didn't see my vision.
The health inspector shut us down,
and I have no idea why.
- That place was gross.
She took that nature thing too far.
I mean, no one should get bitten by a snake at a restaurant.
A snake, a snake!
- I may never know why we got shut down,
but the whole ordeal made me see
that I had a lot of soul searching to do.
I mean, Freshe still had plates and tables,
and that just didn't sit right with me.
- Please leave me alone!
- Last time I checked, 50 miles is 50 miles,
not local, you pervert!
Hey, call 911, somebody call 911.
(dramatic music) (bird gawking)
I got the idea for Farme one day
when I fell on the ground,
and as I bled into the dirt,
I looked around me and I thought,
"This isn't dirt, it's a plate",
and the grass, a vegetable,
and the bugs, a protein,
and the sticks, utensils,
and the flowers, garnish,
and the puddles, a sink,
and the trees, maitre d's,
and the bushes were bus boys,
and the beetles are expediters,
and the clouds sommeliers,
and then a deer walked by, she was the food critic,
and that's when I knew
this was a restaurant idea.
- You couldn't find Farme twice if you tried.
First time I went there was by accident,
I was driving on a dirt road, and skidded off.
It was dark, desolate, there's nobody around for miles,
and then I discovered,
wait a minute, I'm in the middle of a restaurant.
- Farme connects you to food.
It's ten thousand acres of field and woods.
Julia let's her patrons loose on the land
to fend for themselves.
It is illegal, dangerous,
and the freshest food I've ever tasted.
- You may think I'm an idiot.
It's your dessert.
That I'm some wild woman living in the woods,
trying to sell you two different types of milk,
from two different teats of the same goat for a $150,
but you know what, I'm living my dream.
- Oh, it is quite sweet.
Can I at least get a cup?
- Cups are a middle man.
Keep sucking.
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- I just wanted a scrambled egg.
- This is fresher.
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Can you taste that perfection? (man choking)
Nothing like it.