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• Gracias por los Campesinos

  It's that time of the year again. Shorter days, colder nights and the realization that yet another year is slipping away. For those of us who clutch to whatever hope we can find, it's also the time to begin thinking about all the promises ahead for 2008. Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:03 PM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: photography, farmers, thy tran, farmers markets, agriculture, immigrants

• Bitter Sweet: The Price of Sugar

  In London's Victoria and Albert Museum is a small, silver sugar bowl from the late 1700s, complete with a tiny latch for a tiny lock. The mistress of the house would have kept the key herself, as sugar was far too precious to leave unprotected. Today, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:35 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: sugar, fair trade, thy tran, agriculture, film, politics of food

• Foodie Films: King Corn

  Filed under: Grains , Television/Film , Raves & Reviews It all started pretty simply. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis , interested in food production in this country, cast their eyes on corn growing in Iowa. They head for Greene, Iowa, a town from which Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 2:36 PM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Cheap Food, Raves & Reviews, Television/Film, Grains, high fructose corn syrup, agriculture, food production, KingCorn, Iowa, King Corn

• Sharing Food Among the Sikh

  Every year, on the first Sunday of November, tens of thousands of Sikh from across the U.S. and Canada travel to Yuba City for the largest gathering of their extended community in North America. It's the only public festival I've seen in this country Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:51 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: festival, indian food, History, asian food, thy tran, india, agriculture, immigrants

• Ze'ev Vered's Garden

  The pot of chives was waiting for me in Moraga. Little did I know there was an entire afternoon of wonder in store for me when I went to pick it up. With just his hands, a shovel and a wheelbarrow, 79-year old Ze'ev Vered has shaped seven terraces of Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:43 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Vegetables, Fruit, Organic, herbs, gardening, thy tran, agriculture, organic farmers, summer vegetables, summer fruit

• Plumcots, Apriums, Pluots and Their Father of Invention

  It's that time of year. When Bay Area markets are jumping with stone fruits. Names whimsical, actual and unpronounceable and downright silly fill signage over mysterious glowing orbs. People want to know, "What's the difference between a pluot and a plumcot, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Monday, May 28, 2007 1:28 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Fruit, local, Organic, gardening, summer, farmers, shuna lydon, culinary education, sustainability, farmers markets, bay area, agriculture, seasonal, organic farmers

• Rhubarb-Verbena Sabayon, The Pastry Chef Conference

  Shuna Lydon & Sherry Yard, both on team #1. A number of months ago I received an email from an old pastry chef of mine, Stephen Durfee, who is now an instructor at The Culinary Institute of America, Greystone campus in Napa Valley. He was letting me know Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 6:39 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Recipe, Dessert, chefs, Events, Gluten-free, shuna lydon, culinary education, agriculture, Napa

• Delicious. A Love Poem

  Apricots Almonds Leeks vinaigrette gentle flavoured grains sweet fresh rice. almond blossom tea green and black the cathedral inside the fig trees leaves like large hands blush striped and blue black purple figs ripe and heavy the heft of grapefruit tangerine Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 5:15 PM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Dessert, art, citrus, shuna lydon, agriculture, poetry

• Brain Food: Local Events & Exhibits

  In this age of Google and Wikipedia, it's easy to forget the joy of getting lost for hours deep in the stacks of a three-dimensional library. To entice you back to these important anchors of our community, here's a short list of culinary exhibits and Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:19 PM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: local, art, History, thy tran, culinary education, bay area, Jewish, agriculture