Posts for Category ‘Events

Oooeee, Evoo!

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

We had a terrific conversation this week with Gregg Kelley, CEO of California Olive Ranch, all about the qualities and merits of extra virgin olive oil.  California Olive Ranch grows olive varietals with poetic names such as arbequina, arbosana, and koroneiki that produce oils to rival the best in Europe.  Their revolutionary mechanical harvesting method [...]

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Evoo

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

Tonight, we’ll be talking about evoo. No, it’s not an alien radar-detector or a renewable energy system. “Evoo” stands for extra virgin olive oil, the very best that the revered olive tree has to offer. Virgin olive oil means that the oil was produced by the use of physical means and with no chemical treatment. [...]

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Sakes Alive!

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

We had a fascinating conversation with Jessica Furui of Ozumo about sake—here are just a few of the highlights: What to Look for in Sake According to Jessica, a good sake has a balance of all the elements—sweetness, bitterness, astringency, etc. Often a nice sake has a sweet presentation and a bitter finish. Too [...]

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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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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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Primal – The Video

Posted by Tech Chef | Posted in Events, Sustainability

Witness for yourself how masterful butchers, experienced chefs and their helpers, use their craft and open-fire cooking techniques to transform these beautiful, sustainably raised animals into a memorable feast for the event participants; of course, accompanied by local wines and spirits without which we cannot really call it a feast, can we? As you watch [...]

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PRIMAL: Art of the Butcher

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

WhereFoodiesGo co-sponsored the inaugural PRIMAL event that took place in Napa Valley last Saturday.  This was a showcase for some of the top butchers in Northern California (Taylor Boetticher, Dave-the-Butcher) to demonstrate breaking down whole animals (all sustainably raised), then turning over the meat to some notable San Francisco chefs (Chris Cosentino, Stefan Terje, and [...]

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PRIMAL: Butchers, Fire Cooking, Spirits

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

This is a heads-up for WhereFoodiesGo members! Last night, Brady Lowe, President of Taste Network, spoke with WhereFoodiesGo about his passion for sustainably raised animals and supporting local farmers and purveyors. Brady is organizing an amazing event called PRIMAL, whose purpose is to bring together sustainably raised meat, top chefs and butchers, open fire cooking, [...]

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