First Taste of the Farm-to-Fork Gala Dinner Menu
Diners will enjoy local flavor and a new twist on an American classic
Yesterday I had the joy of tasting a preview of the coveted menu, unveiled yesterday, for the Farm-to-Fork Gala Dinner on Tower Bridge. If you were able to snag a ticket to the event, there’s a lot to look forward to.
Sounds Tasty
Which local restaurant expansions have your mouth watering?
Pull Up a Chair
Restaurateurs are feasting on expansion opportunities across Sacramento
Around the Sacramento region, the Mulvaney’s attitude is rare. So many other chefs and owners are taking up those offers or have their own plans to expand. 2015 is proving to be a banner year for restaurant expansions, and as Sacramento’s new Golden 1 Arena rises, 2016 will surely continue the trend. Here’s just a partial lineup of what’s shaking down around the region:
New seats at the table
10 of the most notable restaurant expansions in the region
The lineup of restaurateurs expanding in the Sacramento region is a long one. Here’s are 10 of the most notable names:
To Tip or Not To Tip?
Will an increased hourly wage decrease tips?
Over Tipping
Why I’m finished with added service fees
Magpie Café killed tipping in Sacramento. It won’t be a sudden death, nor was it intentional. But when we look back in five years, we’ll remember Magpie as patient zero.
Survival of the Fishes
California depends on hatcheries to maintain the state’s salmon population, but the cost is genetically inferior fish
Every spring and summer, Chinook salmon gather in vast schools along the central coast of California, fattening up on krill and small fish before their autumn spawning migration into the Central Valley. Fishermen in commercial boats, private skiffs and kayaks take to the water, and most summers, the fleet catches several hundred thousand Chinook weighing somewhere between five and 30 pounds. California’s bounty of salmon, however, does not reflect a thriving fish population.
The Flip-Side of Fish Hatcheries
Originally intended to preserve salmon, are hatcheries harming the species?
In 2009, fewer fall-run Chinook salmon returned to spawn in the Central Valley than have ever been recorded before. Just 50,000 adult fish spawned that autumn in the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin river system — a tenth of how many Chinook migrate inland in a good year. The event was an ecological and economic disaster that prompted officials to shut down California’s ocean fishing season for two years.
6 Farm-to-Fork Events You Might Miss (but Shouldn’t!)
Get your foodie on, off the grid
Here’s the beat on six unique events that will get you out of traditional city spaces for a combination of farm and urban culinary experiences, beginning in Farm-to-Fork Month and extending into the fall harvest season.
Go With the Grain
Elk Grove Milling pursues international markets, but the success rates are stacked against them
After a slow start piecing his way through El Salvador’s business regulations in 2008, Robert Lent began distributing Stable Mix throughout that country in 2012. Now the milling company — which employs 50 workers, makes $12 million in gross sales a year and, as Lent likes to say, feeds 17,000 horses a day — is poised to expand its distribution network in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico.