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Fork & Shovel: Speed Dating for Farmers and Chefs

Gretchen Giles — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:00:00 -0800

All photos courtesy Jil Hale of Barndiva

Late Feb's drear rain and wind did not stop a group of some 60 chefs and farmers from gathering at Healdsburg's Barndiva on Tuesday, Feb. 23, for the second Fork & Shovel"Speed Dating" event. Unlike the whirl that singles might subject themselves to in order to find sex and love and shared towels, this speed dating event matched food providers with the chefs who adore—and need—them.…

Date Night at Vinolivo

Gretchen Giles — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:00:00 -0800

From the Sorry You Missed It files, last Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 found the Lodge at Sonoma's Carneros Bistro hosting the Sonoma Vinters and Growers Association in the Lodge's large reception area and a humid packed tent set up alongside. Like the much larger summer dine-and-walk-around Taste of Sonoma event, Vinolivo featured a yowza selection of area restaurants offering tastes ably complemented by the 50+ wineries on hand, many of them small boutique shops not ordinarily pouring for the public, in a free-for-all of fun.…

Artisano 2009

Gretchen Giles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0800

The first annual Artisano event, held Nov. 14 at the Geyserville Inn, was one of those rare afternoons where giddy patrons greeted each other by saying,"I sure hope that this never gets popular!" Alas for them, as Artisano is destined to be hugely popular—and why wouldn't it be?…

It's Confirmed: Iron Chef to Open Napa Resto

Gretchen Giles — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700

The new Riverfront of Napa development that aims to actually celebrate the Napa River rather than ignore it as past development has done confirmed today that Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto has signed a lease to open a restaurant in the new row. Morimoto, whose eponymous restaurants in Pennsylvania, Florida, New York and yes, India, are hugely celebrated, will branch out to the West Coast for the first time, adding California to his vastly successful line of knives, beer and Japanese food.…

T.R.O.Y. Robert Steinberg

Sara Sanger — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0700

Dr. Robert Steinberg, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, died yesterday after a lengthy fight with lymphoma. He was a fine person and the best maker of chocolate I'll even know.…