On the Rise
Nightingale Breads Harmonizes Artisan Breadmaking with Community Care. On the corner of Front and Second streets in Forestville, Nightingale Breads hums to life long before sunrise. A baker arrives in […]
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Summer in the City
A serpent-shaped balloon animal, painted four stories tall, coils around a prickly-pear cactus on the facade of an abandoned grain silo. Across the street, beside a clanking railroad crossing, a
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Food for People
Not for Profit For 50 years, Community Market has been keeping Sonoma County well-fed and feeling good about it—no shady ingredients, always fresh, organic, and ethically sourced goodness. With locations
Name Games
What Does “Local Food” Really Mean? In 2007, the New Oxford American Dictionary named “locavore” its Word of the Year. Farmers’ markets were proliferating nationwide, tripling in just 15 years. Restaurants began
On the Rise
Nightingale Breads Harmonizes Artisan Breadmaking with Community Care On the corner of Front and Second streets in Forestville, Nightingale Breads hums to life long before sunrise. A baker arrives in
Eat Local – Finding Unity Through Food
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN “I come from a country where hunger dominated our population,” explains Jules Sinai, who arrived in Sonoma County last year from Haiti, “so, I know the
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Eat Local – Cheese to Please
Perhaps Avery Aames, author of the Cheese Shop Mystery seriessaid it best, “Life is great. Cheese makes it better.” Aames’ pronouncement seems to be the guiding principle for much of
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Eat Local – Traditional Foodways on the Table
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN If the food products lining grocery store shelves could talk, they’d tell many a tale, including sagas of long voyages, preservatives, and shortcuts taken to maximize
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Eat Local Short – Back to the Land
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELISE AILEEN In our modern grab-and-go food culture, it’s easy to forget that food is a main ingredient in our health and wellness. But Kim LaVere, chef and
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Eat Local – Star of the Summer
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN Ever since husband-and-wife team Christian Caiazzo and Katrina Fried opened Stellina Pronto! three years ago, customers were patiently eying the blue mosaic pizza oven behind the
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