The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is offering eight new Grow Your Own! classes to help Nevadans who want to get on a path to more sustainable, local, healthy living by growing more of their own food. Cooperative Extension offices in Carson City, Elko, Eureka, Fallon, Hawthorne, Lovelock, Owyhee, Pahrump, Reno, Tonopah, Winnemucca and Yerington […]
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The 8th annual Tahoe City Wine Walk returns June 22. More than 800 people could visit 30 regional wineries last year. This summer’s alfresco event, scheduled from noon to 4pm, will again focus on varietals from regional California wine producers and will also feature gourmet bites from North Lake Tahoe’s top restaurants and catering companies. […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Sierra’s Salsa Showdown is shrouded in secrecy. The winners are not revealing their recipes. And the judges need more to eat than just a tiny tasting cup in order to dissect the edibles. “I can’t share all the secret ingredients,” Lara Weiss of Incline Village told Lake Tahoe News […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee While visiting France, restaurateur Thomas Keller nibbled a crunchy blue-leafed spinach that he’d never seen before. It tasted faintly like oysters – and Keller immediately texted his staff. The French Laundry’s garden got another addition. “It took us a little while to track down the seed, but we got it,” […]
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By Chuck Raasch, USA Today Tomatoes, the kings of U.S. home gardens, are undergoing a revolutionary change, according to breeders and growers. Producers are grafting disease-resistant and insect-resistant roots onto familiar heirloom and hybrids, and seed catalogs are featuring a varied selection of grafted plants for the first time this year. Tests in the U.S. […]
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By Dan McGee, Northern Nevada Business Weekly A dachshund got Paul and Joy Schouweiler of Hadji Paul’s Chicken and Feed into the chicken business. Paul Schouweiler’s wife, Joy Schouweiler, who breeds dachshunds, planned to trade a puppy for chickens in late 2007. Thinking she would get 40 chickens in exchange for the puppy, she got […]
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By Caroline Fairchild, Huffington Post Far fewer Americans dined out last month as many adjusted to smaller paychecks, according to new data released from a closely watched index of restaurant sales. Sales at casual-dining restaurants fell 5.4 percent in February, according to this month’s Knapp-Track Index, which records monthly sales at casual dining restaurants like […]
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Sierra’s Salsa Showdown is Sunday starting about noon at West Bowl. There are two categories – Traditional and Fruity — with a maximum of 30 salsas between the two. Lake Tahoe News Publisher Kathryn Reed is one of the judges. Tip: she likes spicy salsas. Deliver at least 2 cups of homemade salsa to the […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee It’s lean, local and literally a different animal. Today’s lamb has become the locavore’s sustainable meat of choice, grass-fed and sourced from family farms. “It’s quintessentially celebratory,” said butcher Ryan Harris of Napa’s The Fatted Calf. “It has so much flavor. If you get lamb from the right place, there’s […]
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By Susan Wood BEAVER CREEK – One of the most traditional foods at a ski area may be the most memorable when it breaks tradition. Much of the hamburger’s success is contingent on a number of factors ranging from the ingredients to the side dishes and even the value of the meal. Take a recent […]
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