Monk Cellar’s new whiskey club brings a reveling reverence for the art
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement The gold-glinting allure of whiskey flows from…
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Virtual Village Feast celebrates, supports women working in Sacramento food and Ag
Registration is open for Oct. 9 farm-to-fork experience Here’s your chance to feast like a Dame – and support women who work in food and…
Last call at de Vere’s
There was a line out the door Thursday evening as people waited to pay their final respects at something akin to an Irish wake. But…
The battle of wine and fire: Inside the struggle to save El Dorado County’s acclaimed vineyards from Caldor
Randy Rossi throws some muscle against the gear-shifter of his Kubota ATV as it plows through broken powder on a mountain top. The wheels continue…
After generations of community building, East Sacramento gets recognized as ‘Little Italy’
During a recent lunchtime rush, a small team of workers at Corti Brothers’ delicatessen called out orders as they wrapped and bagged sausage links, cheese…
Post-COVID Kitchen Confidential: Sacramento’s tough-willed cooks and pastry chefs soldier on through an upside down world
Worker shortages, supply chain chaos, constant rule changes, public fear, bad air and petty criminals – life is never boring for the indie kitchens making…
Essay: Sacramento could revolutionize its livability by giving artists a stipend to focus on their work
The models and the funds are already there – if we step back from a narrow picture frame By Waverly Hampton III Pope Julius II…
California says goodbye to ‘the Godfather of Barbera’
Dick Cooper’s vision, with advice from the guru of Corti Brothers, launched Plymouth’s international wine phenomenon In the late 1970s, a young farming prodigy in…
The best Sacramento butchers for lighting up the barbecue season
‘Summer time, and living’s easy.” At least, it is for those countering the heatwave by igniting their own flames under the grill. Here in California,…
Downtown Sacramento’s iconic Jim Dennys is Back!
Fabled diner gets new energy from a local chef By Ken Magri Just in time for California’s post-Covid era, Jim Dennys restaurant is back in…