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Haiti Benefit Silent Auction: Private Dinner for 8 at Devil’s Gulch Ranch

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Haiti Benefit Silent Auction

This is a Silent Auction to help Haitians rebuild their country, and to revel in a spectacular event. Celebrated Chef Thomas McNaughton of San Francisco’s Flour + Water is partnering with Mark and Myriam Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Ranch to offer you a private dinner for 8 at Devil’s Gulch Ranch. On the date that [...]

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Chocolate Afterglow

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Events, Food Specialties

Our conversation with Art Pollard last night was… delicious! If we had to choose a single take-home point, it would be this: at the heart of great chocolate are great relationships. Art’s relationships with European chocolatiers allowed him to learn subtleties of the art that can’t be found in books. His relationships [...]

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Amore for Amano

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

Hey, chocolate lovers: where does your cacao come from?  How is it grown, fermented, dried? Don’t feel bad if you can’t answer. Most people have no idea. Heck, most chocolate manufacturers have no idea!  After all, it’s not as if they were buying directly from the producers. But when Art Pollard founded Amano Artisan Chocolate [...]

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Devil’s Gulch, Heavenly Wine

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Events

Yesterday we had the wonderful fortune to visit with Mark and Myriam Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Ranch in Marin County, California.  Here’s just a teaser of the topics we covered in our riveting interview… When the young Mark Pasternak found an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle for farmland at $500 an acre in 1971, [...]

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Welcome Mark & Myriam Pasternak back from Haiti

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Events

We’re all a-twitter (even on Twitter) about this week’s event! Join us right here for Secrets of an Award-Winning Organic Farmer on Tuesday the 26th at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern  with Mark Pasternak and Myriam Kaplan-Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Farm in Marin County, California. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to ask them [...]

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Fancy Food Show

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Events

I attended my first Fancy Food Show at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this past week. What a gigantic accolade to the imagination, creativity, and diversity of foodies everywhere!  The show filled two enormous halls, and was quite full when I was there on the last day.  Here are some of my observations. First, there was [...]

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The Art of Braising

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Recipes

Last week, we introduced Chef Wendy Little to the WhereFoodiesGo community.  Chef Wendy is the new WhereFoodiesGo online personal chef: what this means is that she is available to answer your questions about creative cooking from the simple to the sublime.  Wendy is uniquely qualified to help, too.  She was a protege of Julia Child’s [...]

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Worms at Work

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Sustainability

A while back, I reported that I had received my new worm factory. Without the worms.  They were scheduled to be delivered after a couple of days, but they were apparently lost in the mail.  The vendor sent me another shipment, and we were in business!  One week after the second box of worms came, [...]

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Chef Marc Vogel’s Shocking Cooking Advice

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Food Specialties

Chef Marc Vogel spoke with WhereFoodiesGo last night, and revealed some very surprising information and cooking techniques.  First, he disclosed that the big poultry factories had worked out a deal with governmental agencies regarding “fresh” vs “frozen” turkeys. Here’s the scoop: ALL turkeys from those big names come out of processing at -13 degrees F. [...]

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Grass Fed Cattle

Posted by Mark Leonard / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Posted in Sustainability

After I started reading Nicolette Hahn Niman’s “Righteous Porkchop” and Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, I started buying grass fed beef exclusively.  The taste of the beef reminds me of eating meat back in the 50s where I grew up in Ohio, and there are a host of other benefits as well. I just saw this [...]

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