SFPFS East Bay Networking Opportunity
Join San Francisco Food Society Members and Friends
For an Evening of Casual Networking ~ friends welcome!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
5:30-8 pm
FREE for members
$10 guests
Ozumo Oakland
2251 Broadway @Grand
Oakland, CA 94612
510.286.9866
Please RSVP via our
Facebook event page or via email to Christina Mueller at
cmw@christinamueller.com
and bring along friends who you think would be interested in networking
with other professionals in food, wine and hospitality.
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SFPFS Members Create Top Cookbooks!
Congratulations to SFPFS Member Andrea Nguyen,
whose book Asian Dumplings is one of NPR’s 10 Best Cookbooks of 2009!
Congratulations to 3 SFPFS members for
being chosen as one of the Food and Wine magazine’s best 25
cookbooks (we’re 12% of the list!)
7. Baking for All Occasions by Flo Braker
13. Mediterranean Fresh by Joyce Goldstein
18. Sweet! by Mani Niall
FOOD & WINE magazine has chosen their the 25 best cookbooks and has
published a new book FOOD & WINE Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes
highlighting recipes from the top 25.
Wine Tasting SIG Blending Seminar
By Rosemary Mark
On
July 11 Wine SIG members came to Napa to enjoy a wine-blending seminar
with Vic Bourassa, owner of Bourassa Vineyards. It was a most unusual
wine tasting: we were greeted by Vic at 10:30 a.m. outside his winery in
an industrial park off Highway 29. It seemed like an unassuming building
until we stepped inside to dimmed lights and mini spotlights, walls
draped with ornate dark fabric, countless oak barrels and several
“tasting rooms” furnished with long wood dining tables. We were ushered
to chairs and place settings with crystal wine glasses.
Luxuriating in Crème Fraîche
By Karen Diggs, SFPFS member
Certified Nutritionist +Therapeutic Chef
It is mid-afternoon, around 3:30. I am really very fond of this time of
day because when I am working from home, it is the perfect time to
forage for a snack to sustain me until dinner. I open my fridge and see
a container titled “crème fraîche.” I utter the words to myself: “Crème
fraîche.” Luxurious, creamy, sweet solace! I spoon up a generous
portion, delivering it straight into my mouth. Ahhh!
Blue Cheeses - Tasting SIG
August 4, 2010
By Rita Held
The seven most delicious blue cheeses on earth? Perhaps! Our sampling
was a blind tasting, as usual. But what made this SIG especially
informative was the guidance of cheese expert, Lenny Rice Moonsammy of
Bellwether Farms.* As we tasted, Lenny provided value information about
blue cheese history, how it is made, and how cheeses such as Roquefort
and gorgonzola fit into the picture.
The Great Soy Bean Mystery: Hodo Soy
Beanery Tour by Maurine Killough, your faithful
administrator
How do you transform a green bean to a white cake? And what is yuba?
These soy bean mysteries were solved at the July 21st tour of Hodo
Soy Beanery in Oakland.
Dean Ku, co-founder of Hodo Soy, gave an enlightening tour of this
success story. We began with a tasting of still-warm soy milk, fresh
off-the-press plain tofu cubes, hijiki tofu salad, edamame tofu
salad, flash fried tofu nuggets, and spicy yuba strips. Rich, full
with a hint of bitter, the soy milk was nothing like I’d ever
tasted. The fresh cubes were lightly chewy, but creamy with a
delicate, clean flavor. All the dishes were tasty, but my favorite
was the yuba strips.
People's Grocery One of this year's recipients of
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The SFPFS is a
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organization with 32 years of Bay Area food mastery under our belts.
Join Now and don't miss a thing.
Welcome new members! Our membership drive officially
ended on June 15, but new members have continued to join our ranks.
Please welcome the 12 new members who have joined us this past
month.
Cherry Farmer Extraordinaire
By Carol Crawford
Deborah Olson’s entire life has evolved and revolved around
cherries. She was born in the Santa Clara Valley at the peak of the
California Bing cherry season – the busiest time of the year for her
cherry-farming family. As the first grandchild of her generation,
Deborah knew early that she wanted to carry on her family’s
tradition and leadership in the cherry business.
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On
July 11 Wine SIG members came to Napa to enjoy a wine-blending seminar
with Vic Bourassa, owner of Bourassa Vineyards. It was a most unusual
wine tasting: we were greeted by Vic at 10:30 a.m. outside his winery in
an industrial park off Highway 29. It seemed like an unassuming building
until we stepped inside to dimmed lights and mini spotlights, walls
draped with ornate dark fabric, countless oak barrels and several
“tasting rooms” furnished with long wood dining tables. We were ushered
to chairs and place settings with crystal wine glasses.
