Paradise Island,
Bahamas -  Fresh, plump, ripe eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, onions,
pumpkin, sweet potato, yam and even spinach... all locally grown... all
served up in restaurants and hotels and sold in grocery stores around
the country... Can you imagine that? A partnership between the Ministry of
Tourism's Culinary Division and the Ministry of Agriculture, and the
'Buy Fresh, Buy Bahamian' campaign, aims to make this a reality.

Following
a recent trip to Andros where local chefs, purchasing agents, food
store owners, food wholesalers and farmers came together to not only see
first-hand the quality of local produce and livestock, but to discuss
ways to get those products in local restaurants and in local stores,
that reality is one step closer.

Atlantis Executive Sous Chef Michael Adderley, who also currently serves...