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Type of Business: Community Supported Kitchen
Cuisine:
American, Chinese, Indian, Seafood, Other
Price: price2
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
Comments: Everything is made from scratch. “If there’s a slow hard version to do something, that’s how we do it.” says Monica.
To be more specific, they make all their own broths using meat and bones from farms Monica has personally visited. Fats are rendered in house. Ferments are all wild because the cultures will be more diverse, and thus better for the gut, that way.
To be more specific, they make all their own broths using meat and bones from farms Monica has personally visited. Fats are rendered in house. Ferments are all wild because the cultures will be more diverse, and thus better for the gut, that way.
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: All the food Read Food Devotee uses is organic and sourced or verified by Monica. She believes in not only visiting the farms she sources from, but also developing long-standing relationships with them so they are true partners in each other’s success.
There are three soups in regular rotation on the menu and they all contain exclusively wild caught seafood: fish broth, shrimp bisque and clam chowder.
She cultivates the Real Food Devotee herb garden on site! So some of those herbs are as local as they can possibly be.
There are three soups in regular rotation on the menu and they all contain exclusively wild caught seafood: fish broth, shrimp bisque and clam chowder.
She cultivates the Real Food Devotee herb garden on site! So some of those herbs are as local as they can possibly be.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: Real Food Devotee uses exclusively pastured animal foods—fish, beef, chicken, turkey, bison, pork-- and occasionally wild game like venison.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
Comments: Real Food Devotee always offer chicken liver pate and uses a beef/liver/organ mix in Bolognese sauce or any menu item featuring meatballs.
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
Comments: Animal fats are rendered in house.
All cooking is done with stable fats like pastured lard, tallow, chicken fat and coconut oil.
Coconut oil is used in baking, which also provides a dairy free option for those who are avoiding dairy.
All cooking is done with stable fats like pastured lard, tallow, chicken fat and coconut oil.
Coconut oil is used in baking, which also provides a dairy free option for those who are avoiding dairy.
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
Comments: Big YES. There is always a good variety to choose from! And beef, chicken and turkey broth are always available.
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
Comments: Real Food Devotee blends and grinds their own seasoning mixes. Seasonal herbs are likely to come from the on-site herb garden.
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
Comments: All salad dressings are made with extra virgin olive oil, or sesame oil in the case of the Asian dressing.
Mayonnaise is made with coconut oil.
Mayonnaise is made with coconut oil.
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
Comments: Sourdough einkorn is always available. Monica uses a starter that is a decade old and her flour comes from Jovial, based in Italy. For gluten free options, Real Food Devotee offers gluten free almond flour-based bread, muffins made with coconut flour and cassava tortillas.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: There’s a rotating selection of over 30 different flavors of kefir water, beet kvass (wild fermented two months or more), amazake (a traditional Japanese rice fermented drink), and bottled fermented veggie juice.
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: There’s a huge rotating selection-- Sriracha, chili verde, koji, fermented barley miso, mustard, ketchup, raspberry sauce, fermented cashew cheese and escabeche. For fermented veggies—pickles, sauerkraut, ocean harvest salad, cauliflower and kimchi.
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Comments: Real Food Devotee uses sweeteners mindfully! That means the coconut almonds get their sweetness from coconut water only, jello is sweetened with a touch of honey when necessary and many of the desserts feature monkfruit sweetener. Other sweeteners include Grade B maple syrup and molasses.
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Location & Contact
Southern California
230 W. Avenue 26
Los Angeles, CA 90031
230 W. Avenue 26
Los Angeles, CA 90031
Real Food Devotee was founded by Monica Ford, a former private chef who became passionate about ancestral cooking, responsible food sourcing and sharing her knowledge and ancestral food creations. She decided the best way to make her food available to the widest audience was to open a food delivery service. She’s been delivering properly prepared, nutrient-dense, delicious food for 10 years now.
Her drivers deliver all over Southern California, from north of Los Angeles to San Diego. Each week, customers order what they’d like from a rotating weekly online menu of bone broths, soups, entrees, snacks and desserts, and it’s delivered to their doors a few days later. Free delivery over $75!
She’s happy to deliver to hotels for travelers. If your travel schedule means you can’t order by the usual deadline, she recommends you contact her to ask about availability. Everything is delivered cold and many items are perishable, so travelers will need to have access to some kitchen equipment.