By Tom Kelly, U.S. Ski Team SALT LAKE CITY — Something’s brewing again for entrepreneur and two-time Olympic medalist Shannon Bahrke Happe. The Lake Tahoe native, who now calls Salt Lake City home, is expanding her 3-year-old Silver Bean Coffee Company, opening a flagship retail coffee shop at the bottom of Big Cottonwood Canyon just […]
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By Laurie Brazil CALISTOGA – The crush is fading, fall colors are stunning. Ah, a weekday in the Napa Valley. It means fewer visitors, more attention, and detailed information from the people pouring the wine. Our short trek started on the main artery, Highway 29, with a stop at the popular V. Satuii picnic grounds, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tired of turkey? Tired of cooking? Still want the house to be filled with an enticing aroma? Chili – it’s the answer to all of those questions. Yes, it will take a bit of cooking, but nothing like a Thanksgiving dinner. This is the quintessential winter meal. And with winter having settled […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee In the foothills of Placer County, people are keeping their fingers crossed that freezing conditions don’t harm the coveted satsuma mandarins. “Say a little prayer,” said Josh Huntsinger, Placer County deputy agricultural commissioner. Temperatures were hovering around freezing Wednesday in mountain mandarin territory from Auburn to Lincoln. The cool nights […]
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By Kathryn Reed Oh, the aromas. There is something so incredibly distinctive about the flavors of Thanksgiving dinner melding together. It should be bottled to be experienced more than once a year. Spilling onto the sidewalk was a line Monday night to get this meal. With expectations of serving more than 300 people, the Bread […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — What do more than two dozen wineries, a brewery, a coffeehouse, a bakery and more than a dozen restaurants have in common? They were all in one room on a recent Friday pouring beverages and dishing up food to hundreds of supporters of Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe’s at […]
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By Matt Kawahara, Sacramento Bee Stephanie Lake has seen the effects at UC Davis – students hospitalized after consuming high-octane alcoholic drinks that contain caffeine that masks how drunk they’re getting. Lake, who coordinates the university’s alcohol intervention services, has been warning students that so-called “blackout in a can” drinks like Four Loko are too […]
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The Paul Abowd Tribute Dinner is a culinary love note to a man who has owned myriad Northern Nevada restaurants since the 1950s and is still manning Reno’s Stone House Café kitchen. At this gastronomic Super Bowl, Abowd and fellow diners will be feted by chefs like Gregg Carano of the Eldorado, Jorge Flores, the […]
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By Chris Macias, Sacramento Bee There’s a new wine association brewing in them thar hills. Make that the Sierra Foothills Wine Alliance, an association that covers approximately 800 square miles of wine country ranging from the counties of Calaveras to El Dorado and Amador. All of these areas already have respective associations to promote wine […]
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By Stephanie Fosnight, OakPark-Leaves If you thought the “eat local” mantra was just the latest foodie fad, then think again. While traveling Europe 131 years ago, Mark Twain pined from abroad for the local flavors of America, flavors that — thanks to the twin revolutions of industry and the railroads — were already on their […]
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