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Foodie Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Local gifts, part 4
Here is part four of my foodie holiday gift guide to support local small businesses. I’ll try to post another guide in a couple days. Happy shopping & stay safe out there! Also see: Gift guide part 1 Gift guide … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking & Chefs, Events, Food & Food News
Tagged Big Sur Foragers Festival, Carmel restaurants, El Pajaro CDC, El Pajaro CDC Incubator Kitchen, Foodsmith, Golden Roots Kitchen, Hakouya, HANLOH, Hanloh Thai Food, Haute Enchilada, Hofsas House, Il Biscotto, Monterey restaurants, Montrio Bistro, My Mom's Mole, Rio Grill, Rogue Pye, Santa Cruz Balsamics, scrumptious fish & chips, Tarpy's Roadhouse, The Green Waffle, Yoli's Adobo
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Foodie Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Local gifts, part 3
Santa Cruz-themed gift assortment from The Local Box Shop. Photo courtesy of The Local Box Shop Here is part three of my local foodie holiday gift guide – hope you’ll join me in supporting small businesses. I am mostly highlighting … Continue reading
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Tagged Anuenue Juice California, Arose Teas, Ashby Confections, Aunt LaLi’s, Bee Happy Today, Drunk Monkeys Food Truck, Food Trucks A Go Go, foodie gifts, Friend in Cheeses Jam Co., gifts, goods4goodmarket, handmade gifts, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2020, Homeless Garden Project, Johnny's Harborside, Mission Hill Creamery, Pana, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Mountains Makers Market, shop local, shop small, shopping, Taquizas Gabriel, The Local Box Shop
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Foodie Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Local gifts, part 2
Here is part two of my local foodie holiday gift guide, including several Santa Cruz County businesses (here is part 1). Happy shopping; let’s support small businesses & buy some gifts for friends and family at the same time. Can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Bookshop Santa Cruz, Carmel Honey Company, Downtown Dollars, downtown Santa Cruz, foodie gifts, handmade gifts, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2020, Kianti's, Pacific Cookie Company, Rancho Gordo, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz shopping, scrumptious fish & chips, shop local, shopping, Taquizas Gabriel, Toque Blanche
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Santa Cruz Foodie Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Local gifts, part 1
It is holiday shopping season: with lots of local businesses struggling during the pandemic, I wanted to spread the word about as many as I can, especially for food-related gifts for foodies in your life. Let’s all shop local this … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashby Confections, Bee Happy Today, Big Paw Olive Oil, California Jam Queen, Chaminade Resort & Spa, foodie gifts, gifts, handmade gifts, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2020, Mamma Camps Creative Confections, Marina, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Second Harvest Food Bank, shop local, shopping
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Chocolate for Halloween and Beyond: Recchiuti Confections truffles & Chocolate on Pacific’s 20th anniversary
I have sweet news from San Francisco-based Recchiuti Confections and Santa Cruz-based restaurant Chocolate. Recchiuti Confections Recchiuti Confections makes small batch chocolate using traditional European techniques and chocolate from Guittard, El Rey, and Valrhona. Their Calavera Truffles collection launched late last month … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Food & Food News, Restaurant News
Tagged caramel, chocolate, Chocolate on Pacific, Chocolate the Restaurant, Halloween, Halloween treats, Recchiuti, Recchiuti Confections, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz restaurants, truffles
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Gourmet Grazing on the Green benefits cancer research: enjoy lots of delicious food and wine
The 16th annual Gourmet Grazing on the Green—noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5 at Aptos Village Park—is an always-fun annual celebration with more than 75 vendors including local restaurants, caterers, wineries, breweries, and spirits distilleries. Proceeds benefit the … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Benefits, Cooking & Chefs, Events, Restaurants, Wine
Tagged Aptos, Aptos restaurants, beer, benefit, Capitola restaurants, Gourmet Grazing on the Green, Santa Cruz restaurants, Scotts Valley restaurants, Watsonville restaurants, Wine
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Eat soup Thursday & help Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center
Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center (HSC) invites the community to eat unlimited soup from dozens of local restaurants, caterers, and other food businesses from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, April 19, at the Cocoanut Grove. The 19th annual Soupline Supper assists … Continue reading
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Tagged 99 Bottles, Assembly, benefit, Cafe Cruz, Cocoanut Grove, Erik's Deli, Gabriella Cafe, Homeless Services Center, India Joze, Kelly's French Bakery, La Posta, Manuel's, Oswald, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz restaurants, Shadowbrook, Soif, Soupline, The Bagelry, Walnut Ave Cafe
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Teen Kitchen Project: two brunch dates remain in series, plus new kids’ classes
Teen Kitchen Project has been running a brunch fundraiser series since March. There were two Sundays in March, then they skipped Easter, and now two Sundays remain — April 8 and 15. Entrees rotate each time and have included Huevos … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptos, benefit, brunch, Cooking, cooking classes, kids, nonprofit, Soquel, Teen Kitchen Project
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