Beloved the world over, noodles are the ultimate comfort food and are a staple in Chinese cooking and culture. Although the origin of the noodle is somewhat debatable, with the Italians, Arabs and Chinese all laying a claim, the earliest written record of noodles is from a book dated to the Han dynasty in China […]

Sacramento is renowned for its abundant harvest of some of the most juicy, flavorful and delicious varieties of tomatoes of all kinds that you’ve ever tasted. But sometimes when the local tomato farmers and chefs see the lovely under ripe green tomatoes hanging from the vine, they can’t help but to make like a Southerner […]

The year was 1975. A young woman in her 20’s, who had been cooking all her life and was well known by friends and family for her culinary talents and a knack for entertaining, named Nancy Zimmer, was living in Sacramento. She was a single mom with her two young kids, Tamera and Josh, making […]

A note to our readers, friends and guests: Our long-time friend and local farmer Patrick Hoover, on whom the following blog post focuses, passed away suddenly in early October this year. This blog post was originally written in May of 2016, and we wanted to bring it to your attention again as a tribute to a wonderful […]