I’ve been attending a lot of food and wine festivals since the beginning of the year, and as expected, locavore eating continues to make the headlines as more and more diners explore regional specialties. Yet not to brag, the more festivals I visit around the country (I’m just back from Canada, Arizona, Fiji and Zihuantanejo), Read more…
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Follow the New Easier-to-Find Sonoma Cheese Map
Sonoma types love their cheese. Whether you live here or visit, searching out famous cheeses like Bellwether and Laura Chenel can be a delicious passion. And fortunately for explorers, Cheesetrail.org has made the quest so much easier, with the recent addition of an online version of its popular Cheese Trail map. The printed version was Read more…
Eat LoKal: European Soul Food Grooves in Wine Country
Goulash from Transylvania. Schnitzel from Germany. A Budapest meatball sub, and Hungarian chicken paprikash. It’s hard to believe we’re eating this in quaint downtown Sonoma. Yet here, amid the endless wine boutiques and phalanxes of Cal-cuisine cafes, John and Heidi Cowles have just opened a restaurant called LoKal. It’s a concept they’re calling “European Soul Read more…