July 29th, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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Chef Paul Canales hit up the Derby Street Farmers’ Market yesterday with daughter Eva in tow. The duo got a look at some of the recently ripe tomatoes at Riverdog Farm, Catalan Farms, Lucero Organic Farm, and Full Belly Farm. Tomato season should hit its peak in the next few weeks, giving the chefs time to evaluate…
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June 22nd, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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Yesterday’s solstice officially marked the beginning of summer, but already the markets are bursting with incredible produce. New things keep showing up every week; out of this world strawberries, followed by cherries and the rest of the stone fruits, summer squashes, pole beans, and…
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May 31st, 2009 by Catherine Meng
Romano Isole just showed up with some beautiful porcini foraged from the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. We bought up a whole bunch and Chef Canales plans to have them popping up all over the menu, starting tonight, in such dishes as:
Gnocchi with porcini
an entree of Riverdog Farm pasture-raised eggs poached in olive oil and [...]
May 11th, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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After performing a thorough battery of tests, Chef Canales thinks he’s found just the right eggs to create the lush, deep yellow pasta often only found in Italy. The secret is pasture raised eggs. Hens allowed to pasture ingest a much wider range of nutrients producing eggs that offer a certain richness necessary for our laminated pastas…
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