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The Best Cheese Event in 2025 – SF Cheese Fest !
The annual California cheese festival fundraiser is happening September 13, 2025 in San Francisco!
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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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Emily in Paris Season 2 Filming Locations in Paris and Beyond
Where did Emily in Paris Season 2 Film in France? All the delicious places. PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS FULL OF PLOT SPOILERS!!! Gare du Nord – Paris, France A show taking place in Paris is not complete without a scene at one of Paris’ famous train stations. Paris Gare du Nord is one of the main train stations located in the heart of the capital city. Trains depart from the station serving international destinations such as London, Belgium and the Netherlands. The station itself displays a modern neoclassical style, featuring twenty-three statues of famous sculptors, noticeably why production took place here. Plot spoiler: The series captured Emily travelling from…
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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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Celebrate 2020 Holidays By Learning About Farming Online – Free Slow Food Events
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is virtual in 2020. They have an incredible selection of webinars with farmers and producers from around the world. In between the Christmas Caper Netflix binges, there are so many interesting things to learn and people to meet—who you can visit in the future! Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, the most important event dedicated to good, clean and fair food and small-scale agriculture in the world, is organized by Slow Food, the City of Turin and the Region of Piedmont. In 2020, physical and digital events which, in over 160 countries, nurture the debate on how to feed the planet in a sustainable way. Join…
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Food Adventures in Oaxaca, Mexico During Dia De Los Muertos
Oaxaca City teems with art, incredible foods, markets, shops, and plenty of bars with people watching. What lies outside of the city are the real treasures. We took a day trip with Traditions Mexico Cultural Journeys aptly called “Daytour Tortilla! Food of the soul.” The group picked us up at our lovely little hotel (Las Golondrinas…check out the reviews) and narrated as we wound through the streets into the valley. The best food tours are the ones that take you some place you could never access on your own. That describes the dirt-floored cabana where we arrived for our tortilla experience. We first watched blue corn tortilla demonstrations then tried…
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We Braved a Hellish Road To Get to Pasticceria Curletti in Neive, an Amazing Bakery Near Baralo, Italy
GO THERE: Visit Pasticceria Curletti in Neive when in the Piemonte / Barolo regions. You may like it even more than the vast amounts of wine you are sure to consume!
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This Cheese Event is an Excuse to Go to Italy and Eat Rare, Local Cheeses Non-stop
Slow Food Cheese happens every other year in the Piemonte region. Here’s why it’s a must for cheese bucket lists. Slow Food means saving, promoting, and enjoying the unique flavors and qualities of foods around the world and enjoying a community of people who are like-minded. Slow Food is what the good life is all about. In the year 2000 I joined the Aqua Terra chapter of Slow Food and met a world of Bay Area craft food pioneers like the founders of Scharffen Berger Chocolate, Cowgirl and others who were dedicated to developing the best foods made with rare and seasonal ingredients. Today more than ever we need to…
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Red Chiles, Lavender & Margaritas – A New Mexico Food Adventure
What better time to visit New Mexico than the Dia de los Muertos timeframe. Cooler weather. Festive celebrations. And harvest! A Return to the Pueblos and Poblanos I envisioned my first trip to New Mexico in years revolving around chiles: breakfast, lunch and dinner. A visit to Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm would kick off this long-awaited return to the Southwest. To my delight, this luscious rustic modern farm is just a few minutes outside of Albuquerque. Giant trees shade the long drive into Los Poblanos, that oh-so-typical scene when the destination is country bliss, most anywhere in the world. The view never gets tiring. Every other Friday…
