September 12th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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The second of two dinners to celebrate the range of the 2011 tomato season. This is Oliveto’s 22nd annual Tomato Dinner. Tuesday, Sept. 13 – Friday, Sept. 16…
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September 7th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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Yesterday at the Derby Street Farmers Market, Dirty Girl Produce’s Early Girl tomatoes completely SOLD OUT. There was this beautiful, jewel-like mound of them…and then in the blink of an eye they were gone. Thankfully, we’re planning well enough ahead to make sure we’ve got some for next week’s Late-Season Tomato Dinners (Sept. 13-16). One of the first confirmed menu items…
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August 19th, 2011 by Chef Rhodehamel
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Menu for Early-Season Tomato Dinners 2011. Tuesday, August 23rd through Friday, August 26th.
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August 9th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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Chef Jonah Rhodehamel takes us on a tour of the first tomatoes we’ve received from our friend Fred Hempel at Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, CA….
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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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March 9th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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Last Saturday’s cold snap in the Bay Area affected Brookside Farm in a completely unexpected way. For the past couple of years, we’ve been ordering our tomato seedlings exclusively from Kassenhoff Growers, located in Oakland. The owner/operators have been our friends for many years, and…
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August 23rd, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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We got some solid information from Bill about this year’s weird weather and how it has effected tomato crops in northern California.
In the hopes of things heating up in time for a late-late summer ripening, we’ve pushed back the dates for the 2010 Tomato Dinners to…
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July 27th, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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This year, because the rainy season went so long, we’ve pushed the dates for the 2010 Tomato Dinners back to September 15 – 19 and are watching and waiting. Recently, we’ve seen the first few cherry tomatoes and…
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July 14th, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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Chef Paul Canales hit the Berkeley Farmers’ Market yesterday to witness northern California produce in all its glory. Trini of Riverdog Farm gives us a tomato report, Didar talks heirloom stone fruit, and Chef tells us what to do with Jimmy Nardello peppers…
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October 1st, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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‘Tis the season of abundance and acute ripeness, as summer crops put all their remaining energy into their final fruits and seeds in one last attempt to be sown back into the earth. The farms themselves seem at their most beautiful, and the harvest months have a certain celebratory cheer about them, the true pleasure in a job well done…
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