Good God, not another blog!
Hello, we are Mr. and Mrs. Salad Bowl. Welcome to our blog! We know – another blog?! Why?!??!? We’ll get to that shortly. Why do we call ourselves Mr. and Mrs. Salad Bowl? Well, we live on the central coast of California at the edge of the Salinas Valley, which is known as the salad bowl of the world . Also, we eat a whole food, plant-based diet. So…Mr. and Mrs. Salad Bowl seems fitting. Mr. Salad Bowl’s mother and both of Mrs. Salad Bowl’s parents were born in California, so we have roots here, but we are not native Californians. We are from the Pacific Northwest and we moved here in 2001 as newlyweds. Mrs. Salad Bowl was recruited for a job by a former boss from Washington and we thought Why not? Let’s have an adventure! We’ll spare you the minutiae and just say – it’s been less of the adventure we expected way back in 2001 and more of a bumpy, dusty, exhausting, long-ass journey that resulted in difficulty feeling grounded here. For most of our time here so far, we ha...