Take a close look at the shot, top left in this sneak preview Taste of Petaluma at Bovine Bakery collage. Are the troops starting to show signs of fatigue? After battling our way through bustling weekday foot traffic downtown, the fourth and final pit-stop of the day’s top tasting picks for participating press corps and [...]
Well, really, what’s not to like about a chocolate fondue with an assortment of delectable dippables during Saturday’s 6th Annual Taste of Petaluma gourmet romp around town? And we’re going to let you in on the scoop, West Petaluma Living (& Southern Sonoma Country Life) readers – don’t wait until the end of the day [...]
Here’s where I start to get in trouble when it comes to round-town sneak previewing of delicious, locally sourced and hand crafted yummies to be featured in Saturday’s fast approaching Taste of Petaluma. I do find it hard to resist a slice of pie. Doesn’t matter to me what’s in it, if the pastry’s good [...]
Even though beer is the new wine here in Sonoma County these days, I must confess that I’d never yet managed to make even the briefest of a pit stop into Taps Restaurant and Tasting Room, downtown. And so, with last week’s great invitation to sneak preview a selection of this weekend’s Taste of Petaluma [...]
Time to hunt down your fat pants and comfortable shoes in order to throw caution to the wind of weekday diet willpower. For next Saturday, August 27, 2011 brings out the best of gourmet escapades around town with tickets to the 6th annual Taste of Petaluma. Foodies from around the region flood into town from [...]
Photos in this post courtesy of James Collier of Foie Gras & Flannel and Kimberly Hasselbrink of www.theyearinfood.com Eating fish that has been sourced within a 100-mile radius is a good rule of thumb when buying seafood. Yet according to Petaluma-based sustainable seafood entrepreneur, Anna Larsen, method of catch carries just as much clout in [...]
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Whenever West Petaluma Living’s resident real estate guy holds a Wednesday morning Broker’s Open House at a new listing, chances are that our house scones are first to arrive on the scene. Freshly baked this morning at the dewy crack of dawn, three dozen, fluffy, white chocolate chip (this time) scones went down a treat [...]
With all that lovely, luscious fresh fruit and a bounty of seasonal veggies at our fingertips here in Sonoma County this summer, it’s a crying shame to stuff it into plastic bags whether at the farmer’s market, the store, or simply as a method of storing home grown goodness in the fridge. Check out Green [...]
We’d been hoping for a while for a look around the legendary Cowgirl Creamery’s new Petaluma outpost, tucked away quite inconspicuously down by the river in the city’s mixed use/light industrial warehouse area. Perfectly downplayed in this locale, the award winning, farmstead cheesemaking operation cultivated out of West Marin a decade ago, is arguably this [...]