California Culinary Travel
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Best Food Shops in the Bay
Every year, (for 16 years if you can believe it!), I’ve visited all the best new food shops in the Bay and penned the “Bites by the Bay” column including my favorite picks for “Specialty Food” magazine. Locals know (as do the Fancy Food Show visitors), that we have a vibrant and influential culinary retail scene. Over the past few years, the shear number of new spots have been so numerous, it’s been brutal to pare down to nine or ten worthy contenders. Some of the notables spots I’ve featured over the years include Birite market (when it first opened in 1997), Tomales Bay Foods, the Ferry Building Marketplace, Blue…
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Fair Trade Baking Ingredients Forum at CIA at Greystone on Oct 6
Tracking down and understanding Fair Trade baking ingredients is a challenge for many commercial and cottage industry bakers. This forum at the CIA in Napa for food professionals and enthusiasts will address issue with a line up including author Kelsey Timmerman (Where am I Eating?, Where am I Wearing?), celebrity chef Malika Ameen (Top Chef: Just Desserts), and food consultant extraordinaire Clark Wolf. Master of ceremonies, Clark Wolf, will guide the conversation around the Fair Trade dilemma. After an introduction to the topic from Fair Trade USA, a grower will be Skyped/videoed to illustrate what Fair Trade has meant to them. Kelsey Timmerman will relate his adventures tracking down where…
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Craft Brewery Tours, Tastings & Classes in San Francisco – Updated with New Breweries Opening this Fall
We’re in a golden age for craft beer in San Francisco Bay Area –and many of our established and new brewers are leading the way to inspire a national passion for artisan craft beers – be they kegged, bottled, growlered or casked. There’s so many ways to learn about beer around here — so get out and take a tour, visit one of the 25+ new breweries opening this fall, take a class or get a home brewing kit. We’d love to know if you have any favorite breweries or classes, or tours you think Epicurators should know about. Cheers! / Laiko NEW BREWERIES Eater SF mapped out the 27…
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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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#Game of Thrones inspired Deviled dragon eggs from Hua and Stephanie from @LickMySpoon
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Kim Laidlaws Scone with strawberry jam from @SFCooking School at the Open House.
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I'm in love with #Koji! Made a teriyaki koji roast chicken with koji rice vinegar salad and Sonoko's koji cabbage sunomono. I could eat this every day.
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beautiful branzzino at @SlantedDoor
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Sonoko Sakai's delicious chickpea miso soup with tofu, spinach and green onion.
