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2012 San Francisco Street Food Festival & Night Market are going to be off the hook !
By Susie Wyshak Stop eating now and save your appetite: We had a chance to preview many of the food vendors who will surprise and delight the throngs at the August 18, 2012 San Francisco Street Food Festival. Photos below = 1,000 words. What looks really amazing this year is the night market on August 17th at the Alemany Farmer’s Market — a historic market where “the locals” shop on Saturday mornings, where stalls are painted with murals representing the typss of produce sold in that stall. On Sundays the market area hosts a flea market. With 27 food vendors, The Night Market, a benefit for La Cocina, is…
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May 19th 2012 Food Revolution Day
The first annual Food Revolution Day was a great success: we raised awareness with a large audience of kids and adults, and hopefully inspired some change in their food habits, along with sharing better food and education. Thanks to everyone who came out to support it, and especially to CUESA for hosting the demos and Sprouts Cooking Club for creating our kids demo. Susie, Maya and I had so much fun working on this, giving tours, arranging demos and meeting everyone associated with it. We can’t wait for next year! Here’s the blog post written about the San Francisco Food Revolution Day by the lovely Shannon Longnecker of the Jamie…
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Epicuring’s List of Annual Food & Wine Events & Festivals
Behold, our long over due list of Annual Food & Wine Events & Festivals in California. We found 126 (!), which means every weekend there are at least 2 things to do to around the state. If you see any of your favorites missing from the list, please let us know at happy at epicuring dot com.
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Mushroom Lovers’ Events & Classes – Epicuring Picks by Cindy Roberts
Thanks to Cindy Roberts, Palo Alto culinary instructor for sharing her picks for seasonal mushroom events in the area: ‘Tis the season for Northern California mushrooms and you won’t want to miss them. The rains in the last week herald the start of the season in California so prepare yourself for some great eats. Although I tout myself as a mushroom expert I have been humbled recently to find out 500 types of mushrooms grow wild in Mendocino County. That will keep me busy for a long time learning about all of them. Don’t worry if you’re too timid to forage for mushrooms yourself. There are a few upcoming events…
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SF Cocktails Transcending the 21st Floor
Tony Abou-Ganim, Joel Teitelbaum, and Marco Dionysos prepare their signature cocktails. By Celeste Noche, Epicuring Through an act of serendipity, Harry Denton’s Starlight Room reopened just as San Francisco Cocktail Week ended. Although the two events were planned separately, both seemed to commemorate a milestone in San Francisco’s bartending culture. In its fifth year running, the city’s annual festival paid homage to its thriving cocktail scene while the Starlight Room’s reopening brought together the best of the old and the new. This week the iconic lounge welcomed a new era while commemorating its past 15 years on the 21st floor of Kimpton’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Powell Street…
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From Seed to Table: The National Heirloom Expo
By Emily Shartin, Epicuring Tagged as “the world’s pure food fair,” the first-ever National Heirloom Exposition* sought perhaps a deeper response to the popular foodie question of late: “Where does your food come from?” This three-day agricultural festival in Santa Rosa celebrated heritage food breeds — those unique, flavorful and often colorfully-named varieties of fruits and vegetables that have often been passed over as farmers opt instead for breeds that will withstand the rigors of travel and supermarket stocking. The festival featured seeds and gardening supplies for sale (it was organized by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, which has an outpost in Petaluma), guest speakers (including chef Alice Waters and seed-protection…
