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Get Thee to So Cal and Patchwork Edible to Eat, Learn, Craft
October 5-6 – Come hang with me and 100 food vendors at Patchwork Edible in the beautiful SoCo mall. I’m no mall rat but when I saw that place, I was like dude. Put it this way: there’s a Surfas chef supply store. Patchwork Edible is going to have a lot of great panels, little workshops, munchies, and stuff to buy. Fun for kids too… especially fun! More Fall Fodder For the Food-urati Then on October 13 in LA the fabulous Evan Kleiman with KRCW hosts a discussion UpClose: California Cuisine – What It Is & Why It Matters with Roy Choi, Joyce Goldstein, Eduardo Ruiz, Nancy Silverton, and Sang…
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Cool California Food Event Picks from Epicuring – Early Fall 2013
EARLY FALL 2013 FOOD EVENT PICKS Check back here for updates & Facebook for last minute picks Every Saturday: CUESA Kitchen Demos feature local chefs and authors sharing tips and recipes. The best free and delicious Saturday activity for all ages. Sept. 6, San Francisco, Lucky Rice Fest at Ferry Building Marketplace Sept 7, Sonoma – Kathleen Hill in Conversation With Elaine Corn Join this talk with Sonoma’s culinary maven Kathleen Hill as she talks kitchens, food, and a lifetime of collecting gadgets with Capital Public Radio’s contributing food and lifestyle reporter, Elaine Corn. The talk celebrates the opening of a Sept 7 – Dec. 1 exhibit of catalogues, collections…
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Chocolate for Charity – Feel Good Indulging at the Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival – Sept 14-15, 2013
Hunger is no joke and neither is the tens of thousands of dollars Ghirardelli Chocolate and its partners raise annually to help Project Open Hand prepare and deliver thousands of meals and hundreds of grocery bags daily to San Francisco’s food-challenged. The Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival is your chance to do good while indulging! From sundaes to chocolate cocktails, the 2013 Chocolate Festival is affordable for families and friends – a mere $20 (or $25 at the door). Tickets include 15 tastes, from Ghirardelli (including mini sundaes !) and a bevy of amazing Bay Area chefs and vendors. NEW in 2013: Chocolate & Wine Pavilion: Sip and savor premium samples from…
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Macarons at Bouchon Bakery – When in Wine Country…
The two-person-deep line at Bouchon Bakery steadily streamed through the door one recent foggy-then-sunny morning in Yountville: It’s the almond chocolate croissants. The bread. No, it’s the macarons. Say yes to all…and make Bouchon Bakery your destination for epicuring bliss. Who eats 25,000 macarons every month? After an incredible Sunday brunch at Bouchon Bistro, Laiko and I were lucky to get a peek behind the scenes at the bakery courtesy of Manager Krzysztof Pawlik. He explained that in this very contained space, the relatively small bakery team makes about 25,000 large macarons per month (they’re about the size of a moon pie). And they’re all made by hand (so far…
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Good Eating at SF Chefs 2013
Another summer another great SF Chefs event, full of tastes from 200 or so from great San Francisco chefs, coffee roasters, distilleries, and wine makers from around the world. Full, yes, oh so full were we. I’ll dub Campari the “most creative” liquor presentation with shaved ices in all sorts of flavors including roasted canteloupe. Delfina Restaurant’s gelato sandwiched in a brioche bun added a drippy sweet dimension to the tastings which leaned toward lots of great shrimp, raw fish, and all sorts of meats. SF Chefs continues today, August 4th, with food and educational events so if you’re visiting San Francisco hop over to Union Square for a taste…
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Get Your Farmhouse Style On at the Marin Country Mart
I’d heard about the farmers market at the Marin Country Mart by Larkspur Landing. But what a surprise to discover a little bastion of country farmhouse style, Pottery Barn meets Restoration Hardware with a Bay Area twist. Dining options range from Bel Campo Meats (a farm up north that raises their own cattle) to El Huarache Loco (a small business incubated at La Cocina). Shaded white picnic benches and a sandy earth intertwine making this little slice of foodie heaven is worth a haul from the East Bay (actually it’s very close to the Richmond Bridge) or San Francisco. Plus they have really fun events like the “Folkish Festival” and…
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Tayberries, Raspberries, Pop Tarts Oh My! A Visit to Oregon’s Pennington Farms
A little white sign lets you know you’ve reached Pennington Farms as do gigantic wood planks announcing berries for sale. Your drive to get to this farm, sort of near Grant’s Pass, Oregon, winds through the Applegate Valley, a bit of heaven lined with hills and meadows and vineyards. Californians (and those who’ve enjoyed some other agricultural fruits of Oregon’s back woods) might wonder if you’ve inadvertently dropped into Mendocino’s wine country. Because much like Mendocino’s famous Apple Farm, you’ve come upon one of those beautifully rustic spots that signal shabby chic rustic beauty as if you’d fallen into a Pottery-Barn-meets-Martha-Stewart type of catalog. Yet what Sam and Cathy Pennington…
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California Walnut Crepes with Ricotta Honey Orange Filling
by Epicurator Susie Wyshak Chef Alex Stratta’s California Walnut Crepe recipe stole my heart but instead of the savory route, the recipe immediately sparked a vision of walnut groves surrounded by grazing cows, buzzing bees, and child-like rounded orange trees dotted with fruit. This could only mean one thing: a sweet California Walnut crepe with a “taste of California” theme. I used Happy Girl Kitchen’s orange marmalade (which you can learn to make in their classes!) Booya! The nutty, not-too-sweet substantial texture of the crepes against the creamy and sweet filling sent my tasters to the moon. Our senses enlivened with the orange evoking a tinge of middle eastern flavors…
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Temescal Food Tour in Oakland With Edible Excursions – A Photo Memoire
by Susie Wyshak Edible Excursions, a Bay Area food tour company has led many a foodie through the Ferry Building, the Mission District, and Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto. Starting in March, 2013, they’ll add Oakland’s new food goldmine — the Temescal district — to their gustatory adventures. On a sneak peak tour, we embarked on nothing less than artisanal food carnage, starting at the Sunday Temescal Farmers’ Market. The $75 tour is like an amazing 8 or so course tasting menu, where you usually get to meet the owner. Your palate journeys from sweet to savory, back and forth, with coffee in between. While by the end, I felt as if…
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Food Event Picks for February 2013
Hi folks! Now that Valentine’s Day is over it’s kind of nice to have a break from sweets. This weekend some friends are having a potluck where we’ll all cook a recipe from Jerusalem, which is a fun way to get people together around a theme. We have some great food events listed but I was decided to go on a quick hunt to see what other intriguing events were going on in the food and libation world in the Bay Area this February, and here’s what I found that I’d like to go to: Wilbur Hot Springs’ Guest Chef Series has Tim West as a guest chef, Feb 22-24…
