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The Strawberry strudel from 20th Century Cafe is as good as it looks.
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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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#VenturaFarmers market
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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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The bread linens and flour broom in the @BouchonBakery kitchen
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Come Aboard the Love Boat for CUESA’s Yacht Rock Summer Cocktail Fete on Aug 29
Ahoy mates – hoist a drink and walk the plank with your Epicurators Susie and Laiko for the second annual CUESA Yacht Rocks party next Weds. We are Captaining the costume contest again – so come for one of the best parties of the summer – right out front at the Ferry Building. And yes, we’ll embarrass ourselves at the VJ booth singing “Love Boat.” / Laiko & Susie Tilt your captain’s hat, straighten your stripes, and sail over to the Ferry Building for Yacht Rock II, the summer edition of Cocktails of the Farmers Market. For this nautically themed night of sips and bites, CUESA and the Northern California…
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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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Now this is what a knish should taste like: layers of delicate pastry with a light potato center. #Heaven is at @20thCenturyCafe with @AmyMachnak.
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The ultra talented pastry chef #MichellePolzine and one of masterworks: The Russian Honey Layer Cake @20thCenturyCafe. Enjoyed with @Amymachnak.
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Cochon 555’s Heritage BBQ Cooks in Memphis, Louisville & St. Louis
Do you love great BBQ like we do? From Korean to Asado, Japanese to American, today’s gastrognomes love globally-influenced BBQ. The folks behind Cochon 555 launched a Heritage BBQ series to feature some of the hottest talents in the kitchen and heritage breed meats, cooked over hardwood, charcoal and smoke. The BBQ series is traveling to BBQ hot spots St. Louis (Aug 25), Memphis (Aug 30) and Louisville (Sept 8th). If you have ever been to a COCHON 555 event like we have, its all about a ton of top notch heritage meats, tasty drinks and community. The Heritage BBQ series was started in 2012 in an effort to bridge…
