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Fall 2013 – California Food Event Picks for Curious Epicurists
FALL 2013 FOOD EVENT PICKS Check back here for updates & Facebook last minute picks Every Saturday: CUESA Kitchen Demos feature local chefs and authors sharing tips and recipes. Looking for stuff coming up sooner? See our early Fall finds. Oct. 21, SF, Sugar Skull Making Class at 18 Reasons Within the traditions of the Dia De Los Muertos, sugar skulls play a meaningful role, representing deceased loved ones who living celebrants want to honor. Learn how to make your own sugar skulls at this hands-on workshop with Michele Simons from the Sugar Skull Gallery. See some of Michele’s work on this short documentary “The Making of Sugar Skulls” from…
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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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Plan a Tour to San Francisco’s 2 Saturday Farmers Markets
Saturday morning in San Francisco is a farmers market lover’s paradise. And while paradise is best visited by car, it’s well worth the trip: STOP #1: The Ferry Building’s CUESA market teems with all sorts of great coffee and breakfast food vendors, not to mention produce, cheeses and breads in both front and back. OK also not to mention classes and activities. Getting there: For the Ferry Building, drive and park on Howard near Embarcadero. You can get validated at the market. STOP #2: Around the bend, if you’re on the freeway anyway, lies the historic Alemany Farmers Market, which San Francisco started in the 1940s to connect the city…
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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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Taste Talk: California Cuisine & How It’s Evolved at San Francisco Cooking School on Oct. 2
“California Cuisine” is the real thing – a regional culinary POV and movement which is driven by a philosophy of cooking with locally sourced seasonal ingredients. As we all know, it sprouted from Alice Waters and Co.’s culinary revolution hatched in the 1970’s. Today’s cooks (and chefs) are not only inspired (or limited) by French country cooking, but by cuisines from all over the world. This evolution is the topic for a great conversation about where California Cuisine is today, preseented by San Francisco Cooking School and their new “Taste Talk” series for food professionals and anyone interested in the topic. We’ll be there listening in (and asking questions) from…
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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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Free Pasta Sommelier Tastings from Delverde from Abruzzo Italia in SF this September
We’re fans of many Italian dried and extruded pastas because the flours they use have a different taste and feel than our US counterparts. But we can be overwhelmed by all the options in the grocery aisles. So when our friend and Italiano-file Amy Sherman (of Cooking with Amy) shared this “Pasta Sommelier” tasting series of durum wheat semolina pastas hosted by Delverde from Abruzzo’s, we thought we’d share it with our readers. Most of the tastings require a reservation — and some are demos, and all are FREE. See the full selection below. Delverde is a pasta manufacturer from Italy’s Abruzzi region. Several of their events will be hosted…
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Lucky Rice Cooks Up in SF on Sept. 6
I’ve heard great things about Lucky Rice in other cities, and been wondering when they’d finally come to SF. Our friend Amy Sherman at Cooking with Amy alerted us to the arrival next Friday. As a Japanese-American girl who is always hungry for new dishes to eat (and cook), I’m particularly excited to try the lip smacking Asian-inspired eats on the menu — will I see you there? / Laiko A few dishes & drinks we are hoping to try: Koi Soi: Issan Beef Tartare, HAWKER FARE, James Syhabout Dashi Cherry Tomatoes, Sake Kasu Lardo, Bonito, HOPSCOTCH RESTAURANT AND BAR, Kyle Itani Avocado Panna Cotta with Banana Tapioca and Crisp Lime Meringue, THE…
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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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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…
