Truckee River Winery with Slow Food Lake Tahoe is hosting a food swap Oct. 30 from 2-4pm. A food swap is where your homemade, homegrown, and foraged creations become your own personal currency for use in trading. All swap items must be homemade, homegrown or foraged by you. Jams, pickled anything, honey, olive oil, backyard […]
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By Kathryn Reed A secret handshake isn’t part of the initiation process, but being sworn to secrecy and the threat of bodily harm if the secret is betrayed were all part of the indoctrination process. Welcome to the world of King Bolete. As with all edibles this year, the harvest is late – even for […]
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From running the police department to advocating for global causes, Truckee Police Chief Nick Sensley has another talent up his sleeve. Sensley will connect with his New Orleans roots while whipping up Mardi-Gras style culinary creations when he takes to the Dragonfly kitchen as guest chef Nov. 11. This event coincides with Sensley’s last day […]
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The River School Farm is celebrating National Food Day at its farm, 7777 White Fir St. in Reno, on Oct. 24 from 5:30-8pm. Community members can join the farm for a potluck dinner, networking and brainstorming. Group discussions will be on different topics related to community food issues. The event is sponsored by the Local […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee World Apple Day will have its 21st anniversary on the 21st (Friday), and apple experts – nutritionists, markets and producers – from Sonoma to Camino are all telling us the same thing: They never heard of it. Californians haven’t exactly adopted World Apple Day – a British idea – but […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The demand for locally grown food is ballooning, but it turns out that local meat is almost a misnomer. Small ranchers in El Dorado County gathered at a Local Meat Summit in Placerville last week to beef, if you will, about how hard it is to sell to local consumers. […]
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Challenged by today’s industrial food system, many small farms are looking for new and creative ways to sell their products directly to consumers. Western Nevada College Specialty Crop Institute offers a workshop on “Direct Marketing for Small Farms” on Nov. 5, 9am-5pm, at WNC Carson City campus, 2201 West College Pkwy. Cost is $35 when […]
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By Anne Gonzales, Sacramento Bee Local wine grape growers were dealt a double whammy Monday when an unexpected rain doused harvest plans for the second time in days, lowering sugars in fruit and jamming area wineries. If rain continues this week, growers could lose grapes to deterioration in the vineyards. The unseasonable showers also hurt […]
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By Chris Murray, Reno Gazette-Journal Wolf Pack football fans consumed almost 13,000 hot dogs and more than 3,200 plates of nachos and sucked down nearly 27,000 sodas and waters last season at Mackay Stadium. But just how sanitary is that food? Almost one-third of professional sports arenas had “critical” or “major” health violations in at […]
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By Rudy Ruitenberg, Bloomberg News U.S. wineries producing lower-cost wines face shrinking profit margins as a tightening supply of domestic grapes lifts prices for the fruit, Rabobank International said. Rising grape costs are prompting some large U.S. wine companies to rethink supply strategies, Rabobank analysts Stephen Rannekleiv, Marc Soccio and Valeria Mutis wrote in a […]
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