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The Best Cheese Event in 2024 – SF Cheese Fest !
Indulge in Unlimited Samples of California Artisan Cheese along with Pairing Foods and Drinks from Across the U.S. and Beyond The 9th Annual SF Cheese Fest returns to the San Francisco Ferry Building Grand Hall on Saturday, September 21. The festival focuses on California producers, but this year will include cheesemakers from the West, including Washington and Utah. Up to 20 artisan cheesemakers will showcase their acclaimed creations. Guests will be able to taste dozens of the most exceptional and delicious cheeses being made today. The cheeses will be paired with preserves, chocolates and charcuterie along with local wine and beer. While sipping and sampling, guests will enjoy a gorgeous view of the San…
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Bay Area Cooking Classes & Workshops – Summer 2024
What did you do over the summer? If you want to answer “learned all about food!” then check out these hand-picked cooking and baking classes that will give you the skills to eat well and Instagram-amaze: How to Make Rainbow Cookies – Pride Baking Bonanza Class in San Francisco at Civic Kitchen Wish you could make those incredible rainbow shortbread cookies that pop up in Pride Month every year? Now you can! June 21, 2024 at Civic Kitchen in the Mission District of SF. Teen Culinary Immersion in San Francisco at 18 Reasons Gain mad cooking skills at this cooking bootcamp, Monday through Wednesday, July 22-24, 2024 from 10 am-2…
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Six California Kitchens Cookbook & Olive Oil Farm Spring 2022 Events
Many of these Six California Kitchens cookbook, Apple Farm, and olive oil farm events will book up quickly, so if you are interested it is a good idea too plan ahead!
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Heritage Fire – a Cochon 555 Heritage Pork Fest, Back in 2011
Wow 10 years have passed since we indulged in Heritage Fire. We came. We inhaled. Then we inhaled untold amounts of barbeque while watching butchery demonstrations at this production of Cochon 555. We gathered at a winery in the Napa Valley to eat every type of heritage pork imaginable, smoked, cured, BBQed right there among the grape vines. Even more than the massive amounts of fall-off-the-bone meats, I remember learning to appreciate German Rieslings at a tasting…yes, ironic, that we were in California’s wine country! From the archives, enjoy the scents, tastes, and talents of this snapshot in delicious food history and community which, I’m excited to see, Cochon 555…
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Kids Cooking Class – Cookie Making With Archimedean Principles
RIP Ernest Miller — one of the most intelligent, vivacious, creative food educators. The ultimate Epicuring experience – applying principles from Greek mathematician Archimedes to an experience to which Epicurus (of “epicurean” fame) would flock. On June 7, 2014 it’s for parents and kids, with very few tickets left. Such a cool idea, you can hear about here. It’s sold out but you can get tickets with a very well-priced reward on the Chocolate Chip Cookie School Kickstarter campaign, a project I recently launched to help kids develop critical thinking through cookies!
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A $25 Leisurely Afternoon in Oakland
Somehow the holidays passed by with no R&R in sight. So I decided to indulge with an afternoon off near Lake Merritt on a Friday afternoon. The streets bustled, I guess with likeminded folks enjoying this mid-week New Years. Here’s how I spent a 6-hour leisurely afternoon in the corridor that bustles between Mandana at Lakeshore horse shoeing over to Mandana at Grand Avenue. First take my “pro parking tip” and see if you can get an all-day parking spot by Walgreens and Trader Joe’s just where 580 dumps off at the Lakeshore exit. I kind of feel bad letting the secret out as it’s probably good employee parking, but…
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Celebrating Sonoma’s Wine & Cheese Connector – Sheana Davis
You roll into Sonoma, bumping into the square to which most roads lead. You park just off the square and note the wooden cow with the hollow face, ready to poke your head in as a souvenir. This playful touch welcomes you to The Epicurean Connection, the perfect point of embarkation for a Sonoma tour. It’s uniquely Sonoma, adorned with art from locals with painted windows reflecting the season. You’ve entered happiness, a place where long time cheese monger / cheese maker / cheese lesson-giver Sheana Davis welcomes you… along with very friendly, very capable hometown kids, friends of Sheana’s daughter. In fact, this cheese shop / cafe reflects the…
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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…
