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Boqueria California

 

Friends,

 

See how we’re Unlocking Sacramento’s Potential:

 

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Boqueria California

  Great Cities Have Great Places

 

 

Hope you can join us and provide input at this free event.

 

 

BOQUERIA CALIFORNIA Public Forum hosted by

 

Michael Tuohy (Grange Chef) & Dan Best (Local Farmer’s Markets)

at The Citizen Hotel - 7th Floor Terrace Monday, June 28th at  5:30pm

 

The Boqueria CA, the Bounty of California, will be designed as a year-round marketplace celebrating California grown food products and Sacramento’s leadership in the Healthy Sustainable Lifestyle movement. Seattle has Pike’s Market, San Francisco has The Ferry Building, Vancouver has Granville Island Public Market…Sacramento would have The Boqueria California

….Great Cities Have Great Places.

 

We would like your input on this potentially “Game Changing” Civic Amenity for the Downtown Core. Please feel free to bring along anyone interested in creating Great Places in Sacramento celebrating California food and wine.

 

Rising Star Chefs SF

 

I had the privilege of attending the SF Rising Star Chef Event last week. the event sponsored by star chef magazine of NY, an on-line publication dedicated to supporting and encouraging new standards and progression of the culinary arts. the night was all about showcasing the best dishes prepared by these young chefs on recent visits by the star chefs committee. most of the nominees are chef de cuisines or sous chefs of their establishments. The event was held on a beautiful sf evening outside in Ghirardelli square. Appropriate beverages were matched to accompany each dish.  I had the pleasure of presenting one of the awards to john paul carmona of manresa. the future looks very bright for the bay area culinary scene! 
 

 

Pasture Raised Meats on the Rise

 

this article from this morning's NY Times tells how the demand for pasture raised meats has really taken off in NY. small farms raising animals responsibly in a natural healthy environment are seeing increased demand of their animals. consumers are becoming more aware and conscious of what kind of meats they are buying as concern for how the animals were raised grow. 

Farmers Market Updates

 

in case you missed this nice article in yesterday's sacbee written by rick kushman, he did a fantastic job capturing the essence of Sacramento's most celebrated farmer's market. last sunday morning, my wife patti and I had the pleasure of giving rick kushman a tour of the sunday morning farmer's market that occurs every sunday morning underneath the freeway in downtown. I also led a group yesterday at the chavez park farmers market that occurs every wednesday from may-october located directly across the street from grange restaurant and the citizen hotel. 

we are seeing blueberries, early peaches red&white, asian greens, cherries of all different varieties, pluots, apricots, apriums, strawberries, fresh garbanzos, torpedo onions and some early squash. beets, english peas asparagus, favas, chards and other leafy greens are still in. spring is a wonderful time of year in sacramento! after this weekend, I think things are going to start to heat up and a new inflow of summer crops to the market should begin to arrive. stay tuned!