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Here are some photos of Chef Gordon Smith
with his own home system in Los Angeles.
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Left: Delicious Rocket Arugula Right: A Bounty of Fresh Lettuce
GORDON SMITH
Gordon Smith has over 40 years combined experience in organic food and farming both as a chef and company owner. A California native, after graduation at Sacramento State University witha B.S. in Communications, he entered the restaurant business, training under legendary chefs including Michel Stroot of the the Golden Door.
During the Los Angeles Olympics, he worked as kitchen manager to help plan, organize and feed healthy meals to 7,000 athletes in addition to catering presidential and mayoral events. At the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt Germany, Smith was part of the American Natural Food Team which won two Silver Medals. A long time advocate of organics, his company, Gordon’s Specialty Produce, serviced independent markets in San Diego with a wide variety of gourmet vegetables. He was thrice awarded Best Chef of North County for his own restaurant, Basil Street Café in Encinitas where he also owned a full service catering business. As an accredited teacher for regional occupations program, he gave demonstrations on the use of fresh herbs in food preparation and taught cooking to special education students. He has been a private chef for clients that include First Lady Betty Ford, Michael Eisner, Saudi Prince Fahad and James Garner.
An early proponent of Community Sponsored Agriculture, he helped launch a CSA at Seabreeze Organic Farm with farmer/owner, Stephenie Caughlin. His interest in preserving the small farmer led him to found Slow Food San Diego. He served a four year term as Governor of Slow Food Southern California and was twice selected as a delegate at the Slow Food Terra Madre, an international conference of food communities from 150 countries united by a mutual goal of global sustainability.
In 2015 Gordon founded the nonprofit
Encinitas Community Garden which was
awarded the Excellence in Environmental
Stewardship in 2024 by the City Council.
