The 32nd Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival will be at Northstar on Sept. 8-10. There will be more than 19 unique festival events, from yoga and wine tasting to outdoor movies to hands-on cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs. Sessions can be experienced in a la carte fashion or go all three days. For details […]
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By Zlati Meyer, USA Today Following the news that Amazon.com’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market received FTC approval, Amazon announced that it is striving to make Whole Foods more affordable for the average consumer. Amazon, which is acquiring the organic-heavy supermarket chain for $13.7 billion, announced that starting Monday, the day the deal closes, it will […]
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By Moonshine Ink Alice Waters is a pioneer — in the truest sense of the word — for the local, organic food movement. Most passionately, Waters has been an advocate for free, locally-sourced meals in our school systems. She got her start in Berkeley when she opened Chez Panisse, one of the first restaurants in […]
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Garlic gardening — that will be the topic of a talk at the South Lake Tahoe Library on Sept. 30 at 1pm. This is for anyone who has ever considered growing garlic in a garden in Tahoe. UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe is putting on this free workshop to show how garlic can be […]
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By Kathryn Reed Plenty of people would say cantaloupe is perfect just as it is. I don’t disagree. However, that did not stop me from trying something besides cutting it in wedges or tossing cubes into a fruit salad. I’ve had barbecued peaches before, but this was a first for cantaloupe. The warmth of it […]
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By Dave McIntyre, Washington Post Jan and Michael Gibson are wine lovers who don’t go to wine stores. Instead, they go directly to the wineries, and have the wines shipped to their home in Rockville, Md. They are part of the small but rapidly growing “direct to consumer” sales channel that is chipping away […]
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By Hannah Knowles, Sacramento Bee A $3.9 million federal grant awarded to the California Department of Food and Agriculture will help the state expand a program that encourages low-income people to shop at farmers markets, state officials announced this week. In July, the department launched the California Nutrition Incentive Program, or CNIP, which rewards […]
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Rangers at Mormon Station State Park in Genoa will be putting on a breakfast Dutch oven cooking demonstration on Aug. 13. Rangers will be cooking up a breakfast casserole and a bacon bomb, all while explaining the basics of Dutch oven cooking. Guests will learn today’s cast iron techniques, as well as those used by […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sometimes I get a hankering for a sandwich. They just aren’t something I eat very often. And warm ones – at least at home – are almost non-existent. They might become a more regular thing with this recipe. For vegetarians and vegans, getting enough protein can be an issue. And while so […]
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Slow Food Lake Tahoe is offering a tour of edible gardens on Aug. 13 from 9am-2 pm. This is an opportunity to get ideas for gardens of all shapes and sizes, from a beginner container garden to a high production permaculture greenhouse. It will be a caravan style tour beginning and ending at the […]
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