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community
1 Tasty Bites at Oakland's Eat Real Festival
Inspiration
2 A Picture Perfect Daytime Bridal Shower
events
3 A Distinguished Meal at Chefs' Holidays
Wine
4 Noteworthy Nibbles — June 26 to July 2
events
5 Noteworthy Nibbles — June 22-29, 2010
Cocktails
6 5 Things You Don't Know About Bartending
parties
8 PartySugar Behind the Bash: The PopSugar TechCrunch Party
Wine
9 Noteworthy Nibbles — Sept. 23-29, 2008
beer
10 Noteworthy Nibbles — Mar. 3-9, 2009
beer
11 Noteworthy Nibbles — June 2-9, 2009
Meat
12 The Buffalo Guys Say Give Buffalo a Chance
Cocktails
13 Noteworthy Nibbles — Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 2009
tours
14 Touring the Ahwahnee Dining Room and Kitchen
san francisco
15 A Sweet Saturday at the San Francisco Chocolate Salon
events
16 Noteworthy Nibbles — June 1-16, 2010
events
17 Noteworthy Nibbles — July 13-20, 2010
Food artisans from around the country were honored at the second annual Good Food Awards, which celebrate American food producers, who enhance the country's agricultural landscape and help to build community. On Friday, we hit up the awards ceremony, where a veritable who's who of the food industry, from Alice Waters to Ruth Reichl, spoke to the importance of heirloom products, and where we had a Read more
One of our favorite demonstrations at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival was led by chef Alex Guarnaschelli. If you're not watching her wildly entertaining and informative show on the Food Network, Alex's Day Off, I highly recommend you check out a few of the episodes. Her passion and enthusiasm for food is infectious, and her recipes are creative and delicious-sounding. On Saturday Read more
Over the weekend at the Food Network's South Beach Wine and Food Festival, I attended a packed demo led by Rachael Ray. The self-proclaimed "burger and taco girl" sipped a kumquat margarita while she made fish tacos and a French bistro-inspired burger in a slinky black dress. Instead of focusing on teaching the crowd how to cook, Ray declared that "we're going to have a nice chat," and invited Read more
Recently I sat down with a group of people to conduct my first-ever sake tasting. The event was hosted by SakeOne, a craft sake brewer that's based out of Oregon and known for producing award-winning and fun-flavored sakes. The tasting paired 15 sakes with different artisan cheeses also from the beaver state. As I took my first sip of the grassy, smooth, vanilla-ish Momokawa Diamond, I realized Read more
Last night, Susannah and I rolled up our sleeves and kicked off our heels to guest-bartend at San Francisco's Jardiniere restaurant. While we were only mixing one drink, the YumSugar Special (a riff on the classic Whiskey Sour — recipe to come!), I learned a lot from the experience. It's not easy being behind a bar with thirsty customers waiting for a drink, and after doing it, I have a Read more
The Fancy Foods Show is a giant food industry trade show that happens twice a year. The Winter event takes place in San Francisco and thus, we've spent the past two days eating our way through the whole thing. While there are plenty of trends to discuss (stay tuned for those!), our favorite part of the show are the mind-blowing bites and intriguing sips that we found as we wound our way around Read more
One of the simplest ways to serve a crowd at a holiday party is to put together a cheese display. It's easy to arrange different cheeses on a platter and pair with an assortment of nuts, dried fruit, and charcuterie; the hard part is deciding what kind of cheese to serve! That's why I've done the work for you; this year for your holiday cheese display, I recommend a wedge of artisanal Read more
We're more than halfway through October, and before we know it, Breast Cancer Awareness Month will be over. So while you're hunting down that perfect Halloween costume, be sure to find a cause to get behind. Us? We'll be at Domaine Chandon's Pink Party, an annual soirée with pink attire, pink appetizers, and (of course) pink bubbly, to benefit breast cancer treatments at the Queen of the Valley Read more
Although it's cooling off elsewhere in the US, the sun's just now starting to shine in Fog City. Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur took great advantage of the wonderful Bay Area weather when the company held a late-afternoon happy hour at a set of bocce ball courts overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Solerno is the world's first blood orange liqueur, and it's made in Sicily with garnet-red oranges Read more
Besides an assortment of savory bites and lots of meatballs, another thing I consumed in massive quantities at the Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival was cookies. On Saturday morning, I gathered with eager kids and their attentive parents for an event entitled Milk and Cookies hosted by Martha Stewart. Over 15 of New York's top bakeries and pastry chefs set up tables with every Read more
