Best of the Fancy Food Show 2010: CHEESE CHEESE CHEESEfeatured
I am so late to the game on this post, I’m almost too ashamed to post it. Damn you, Procrastination, damn you. I’m making a stand. No more staring at this in my “Draft” box and re-writing this on my “To-do” list every week – let’s get on with the show, shall we?
The Cheese section of the Fancy Food Show is a sight to behold. All the cheese a girl could dream of. Aisles and aisles of the creamy, stinky, glorious stuff! Top 5 standouts this year were:
- Cypress Grove – Truffle Tremor
- Rogue Creamery – Echo Mountain, Caveman, and Brutal Blue
- Mevgal – Feta
- Bellwether Farms – Cultured Whole Jersey Ricotta
- Mt. Townsend Creamery – Seastack
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An African Dinner in Berkeleyfeatured
Awhile back, we hosted an epic Chinese New Year day of feasting. Throughout the continual grazing, I had the chance to catch up with my friend, Golden. I learned that he spends up to 6 months of the year in Madagascar, and is also quite the cook. As a thank you for all the tasty dumplings he dominated at our party, he invited us over for some African home cooking, Berkeley-style.
I love dinner parties – there’s just something wonderfully intimate about getting to know someone in their element, through the food they’ve taken the time and thoughtfulness to prepare. On the menu this evening was a Senegalese-style Mafé, a tomato-based groundnut stew, and for dessert, Bread Pudding with Malagasy Vanilla Rum Sauce.
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Sweetriot Giveawayfeatured
When I first discovered Sweetriot, the adorable reusable tins (which feature the artwork of different emerging artists chosen every few months) were what caught my eye, but the intense dark chocolate flavor was what kept it.
Each 1 oz tin is full of 100% dark cacao nibs dunked in 50%, 65%, and 70% dark chocolate.
They are the ultimate quick-fix for whenever you are hit with a chocolate craving, with a satisfying crunch (like biting into a crumbly espresso bean) and jolt of choco-energy to keep you going (and…to keep you from snarfing down a king-sized candy bar).
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Chocolate Month Extendedfeatured
Good news, my happy chocoholics!
Response was so great from February’s Chocolate Month of Giveaways…that I’ve decided to spill over into March as well 🙂 I mean, really, why stop at just one month – and the shortest month of the year at that.
Congrats to all our winners last month: Ryan E – Socola Chocolatier Anna – Antoine Amrani Chocolates Dskco – JimmyJane EMBER Les – Valrhona Chocolate Michelle – Sonoma County Restaurant Week Fran – Fran’s Chocolate Dana R – Brandini Toffee Lindsey – Poco Dolce
Now…get ready for some more goodies!
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