January 19th, 2012 by Catherine Meng
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On January 10, we hosted a wheat tasting in the Oliveto dining room. Our plan wast to begin establishing some basic vocabulary for how to talk about the flavor components of wheat and flour as well as discern how those components vary between different varieties. In attendance were some of the most highly-tuned palates we know…
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October 13th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
When we first got involved with locally grown grains over four years ago, one of our long term goals was the pursuit of identity preserved wheat. By this we mean a particular variety grown by a farmer we know and trust, and milled into flour without being blended with other varieties or wheats from other [...]
August 1st, 2011 by Bob Klein
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We hit up the Derby Street Market last Tuesday with our favorite produce guy, Bill Fujimoto.
We checked in with Full Belly, Lucero, and…
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July 26th, 2011 by Bob Klein
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After a couple of years of dilly-dallying with our beloved Red Flint ‘Floriani’ corn (growing one acre in 2009, then five acres last year) we’re finally taking the plunge with a much larger crop for 2011. Eighteen acres were planted in Woodland, CA along with another ten acres in Lodi, CA.
Also in the mix are…
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June 16th, 2011 by Bob Klein
UPDATE: See the revised schedule
It is late spring and this is the time to be eating beef. The steers have been eating plentiful amounts of green grass (from our plentiful rains) and several important ranchers have presented us with offers too good to turn down.
First, Mac Magruder’s 8-month-old veal came in a couple of [...]
June 13th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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Last friday, the Oliveto kitchen received delivery of one side of a magnificent four-year-old Black Angus steer. This delivery was noteworthy on many levels but to start, we needed a fork lift to get it off the truck. The animal’s live weight was close to 2,100 pounds, and it dressed-out at 1,237 pounds. At present, we have two 300 pound…
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June 8th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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Summer Solstice is right around the corner, and California salmon season is reaching its end…until it starts up again in July. The quality of this year’s salmon has been exceptional, with deep color and great flavor. Add a little citrus, fennel, and chervil and…
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April 13th, 2011 by Bob Klein
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We love our Floriani Red Flint corn, we think it makes the very best polenta. So, when we started to ask farmers to grow it for us several years ago, we found that the Rominger Brothers were up for the adventure. Their first crop, about an acre and a half, yielded 2,300 lbs pr acre, but we thought…
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February 22nd, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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If you were still hibernating when we posted that last thing about Kishus, wake up! Spring has begun!
For many of our farmers, one of the tell-tale signs that the season has started (weather wise) is the first asparagus. The very first spring sparagus initially comes from our farmers…
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December 7th, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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If you’ve been follow the Oliveto Grain Project, you know that over the last two years we’ve been enmeshed in the pursuit of locally grown corn and wheat. This has evolved from a simple query into a full-blown cause and now finally the creation, in partnership with our farmers and miller, of Community Grains….
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