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.

 

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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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