A harvest-time workshop on orchard and berry production could bear fruit for those interested in becoming commercial small farmers, or improving their current farming processes. Western Nevada College Specialty Crop Institute is having an orchard and berry production workshop on Sept. 10, 9am-4:30pm at WNC Carson City campus, 2201 West College Parkway. Cost is $35 […]
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One of the North Shore’s most heated competitions will pit Tahoe culinary colleagues against each other to determine who rightfully deserves the title of Mountain Chef at the Blazing Pans Cook-Off Sept. 11. The cook-off is part of the three-day Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival (Sept. 10-12) at the Village at Northstar in […]
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Hyatt Regency in Incline Village is having is inaugural Wine on the Water festival Aug. 29 from 1-5pm. Featuring 20 wineries and a dozen local restaurants, the event will include exclusive tastings of some of the region’s best food and wine, live music, and a noteworthy silent auction. Set against a backdrop on the Cottage […]
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Fair Play Wine and Poker Run is Aug. 14 from 11am to 5:30pm. Sample wines from five Fair Play wineries, then end the day enjoying dinner on the Grand Deck at Chateau Routon. Each winery you visit will present you with an envelope containing a playing card. At the end of the day, you will […]
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By Noelle Carter, Los Angeles Times A couple of weeks ago, I was out on the road in Northern California, heading southeast from Sacramento on Highway 16 toward the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It’s a beautiful drive, and on that blistering summer day I might have noticed the massive old oaks dotting the rolling […]
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By Kathryn Reed It seems like as the weather gets warmer, I want to eat less or not at all. The less part wouldn’t hurt me, the not at all isn’t the healthiest of choices. There are just those days when all the “regulars” sound boring and opening a cookbook sounds way too involved. When […]
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By Kathryn Reed When El Dorado County Sheriff Fred Kollar worked in Lake Tahoe the jail was serving TV dinners. Last week he made a special effort to commend the inmate, yes the inmate, who made the cream puffs. Kollar has a thing for cream puffs and he told inmate Jimmy Beechler these were as […]
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The Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival is celebrating a milestone – 25 years — Sept. 10-12. Culinary aficionados and hungry travelers can return to the cobbled streets at the Village at Northstar in Truckee for chef battles, free cooking demonstrations, along with wine seminars. Visitors can join in with noted celebrity chefs, presenters […]
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Sample the Sierra is a cooperative effort of El Dorado County organizations, growers, producers and businesses to increase awareness of the region’s bounty, heritage, culture and activities through a market-to-table event featuring tastings from the Sierra Nevada’s best chefs and restaurants — all created with local produce, and paired with tastings from local wineries and […]
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Thai One On is this week’s featured restaurant for Taste of Tahoe. Taste of Tahoe is a fund raiser for the South Shore’s Relay for Life. Eating at the Kingsbury Grade restaurant now through July 24 means a portion of the proceeds go to the local Relay for Life, which in turn is a money-maker […]
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