Armenian Food Festival
It’s the 60th annual Armenian food festival this year. Sixty years! St. James Armenian Church sponsors this annual event featuring traditional food, folk dancing, and crafts. Some of the specialties will include lamb kebabs, dolma (stuffed grape leaves), pilaf (rice), lamajoon (Armenian pizza), and baklava. You can be sure that there will be some grilled [...]
Have You Tried?: Salty Lemonade
What: Chanh Muoi, or salty lemonade Where: Pho Bac Hoa Viet restaurant, 1827 Broadway in Sacramento and 305 1st Street in Davis Why: If you like the interplay of salty and sweet, you have to try this drink. Made with lemons soaked in salty water (preserved lemons), it is especially refreshing with fried food. I [...]
Flights and Finger Food
What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than tasting a flight of wines and eating? If you were in the Bay Area, there are hundreds of places where this could be accomplished. But in the capital city, the choices are not so wide. Fortunately, Selland’s Market in East Sac has got the perfect set-up. [...]
Have You Tried?: Smoked Paprika
This is a new feature in which we’ll give you short recommendations for great things in the capital area that you should really taste. They might be single menu items from a restaurant, types of produce from the farmer’s market, or delicious finds from grocery stores. We’d love to get your feedback and recommendations for [...]
Come and Taste a Wee Dram
Monday, October 9, Corti Brothers is sponsoring a single-malt scotch tasting at Spataro Restaurant (1415 L St.). If you’re a fan of scotch or want to learn more about this fascinating drink, you should belly up to the bar. The admission fee is $60 and you’ll get 15% off any purchase. Some of the scotches [...]
Hoes Down Harvest Festival
Last Shameless plug of the day… Hoes Down Harvest Festival Don’t miss the 19th annual Hoes Down Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 7! This all-day celebration of the harvest season offers a unique opportunity to enjoy rural life on an organic family farm with educational tours, workshops, hayrides and an abundance of food and music. [...]
Taste of Capay
I am on a shamless plug… blog session here today of some great fall events that I think every family should check out. First is the… Taste of Capay Benefit Dinner & Auction for Capay Valley Vision Sunday, October 22, 2006 Noon – 4:00 p.m. At Taber Ranch Event Center This year will be the [...]
Are you a part of Slow Food?
I would hope that all of you are Slow Food members. If not you really should check out the organization to learn more about their causes http://www.slowfood.com/but briefly, the founder of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, recognized in 1986 that the industrialization of food was standardizing taste and leading to the annihilation of thousands [...]
American River College’s Oak Café
Oven-dried tomato tart, fresh salmon with Israeli couscous, and roasted local peaches with ginger biscuits. Sounds like a high-end restaurant, doesn’t it? Well, the Oak Café at the American River College (ARC) is exactly that. It’s a tiny little surprise in the midst of the busy campus just off College Oak Drive, near Auburn Boulevard. [...]
Lincoln Produce Market
Probably one of the niftiest little groceries I’ve ever visited (believe me, I’ve seen and shopped at quite a few) is the newly-opened Lincoln Produce Market. I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with Randy Kliewer, Chef/co-owner, on a recent visit and I was wildly impressed with the quality and size of their [...]
