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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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Special Mother’s Day chocolate gifts: Recchiuti Confections, Ashby Confections
Fancy, delicious chocolate is a perfect Mother’s Day gift—San Francisco-based Recchiuti Confections and Scotts Valley-based Ashby Confections have many offerings to choose from. Recchiuti Confections Recchiuti Confections handcrafts their recipes in small batches using traditional European techniques. They blend chocolate from Guittard, … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Food News
Tagged Ashby Confections, caramel, chocolate, Mother's Day, Mother's Day gift guide, Mother's Day gifts, Mother’s Day guide, Recchiuti, Recchiuti Confections, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Tortoises
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Restaurants for Easter in Santa Cruz, South Bay and SF
Dining out for Easter 2019? It’s this coming Sunday; here are some restaurant and food vendor highlights for Santa Cruz, the South Bay, and San Francisco. Santa Cruz & Scotts Valley Chaminade Resort & Spa The Chaminade offers its annual … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurant News, Restaurants
Tagged Capo's, Chaminade, Chaminade Resort & Spa, Easter, Easter brunch, Easter restaurants, Hilton Scotts Valley, Manresa Bread, Porta Blu, Presidio Social Club, Recchiuti Confections, Santa Cruz restaurants, Scotts Valley restaurants, SF restaurants, South Bay restaurants
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Valentine’s Day gifts for the coffee & breakfast lover
If you’re looking for a special Valentine’s Day gift for someone who takes their home coffee and breakfast making seriously, I got to sample some Hamilton Beach products recently and can tell you about a few. Hamilton Beach products are … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking & Chefs, Recipes
Tagged breakfast, breakfast sandwich, coffee, gifts, Hamilton Beach, K-cup, Valentine's Day, Valentine’s Day gifts, waffle maker, waffles
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Give to the hungry this holiday season
I write a lot about food, and know that those of you reading my articles are “foodies” – this holiday season, let’s remember those who do not get enough food! How about donating to people in need, like those struggling … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Food News
Tagged Feeding America, feeding the hungry, food bank, holidays 2018, Second Harvest Food Bank
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Christmas shopping: last minute restaurant gift card bonuses
Two weeks ago I posted this article with eight different “gift card bonus offers” from Santa Cruz and Capitola restaurants. Here are a few more for any of you doing very-last-minute shopping. Capitola, Scotts Valley and Watsonville Sushi Garden … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurant News, Restaurants
Tagged Blaze Pizza, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola, Capitola restaurants, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2018, holidays, Jamba Juice, pizza, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz restaurants, Scotts Valley, Scotts Valley restaurants, sushi, Sushi Garden, Watsonville, Watsonville restaurants
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Last-minute Cuisinart gift ideas for chefs and foodies
Have some last-minute holiday shopping left to do? If any of these gift recipients are amateur chefs or just plain foodies, Cuisinart has a few gift ideas. Retailers that carry some of these selections include Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking & Chefs, Recipes
Tagged Air Fryer, Christmas gifts, Christmas shopping, cooking gifts, cuisinart, food processor, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2018, recipes, toaster oven
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Santa Cruz holiday shopping: Gift card bonus offers for restaurants
If you’re in Santa Cruz or Capitola and have some gift or stocking stuffer shopping to do, you’ll be happy to know that several restaurants are offering “gift certificate bonus deals” for the 2018 holiday season. Here are a few … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurant News, Restaurants
Tagged Capitola, Capitola restaurants, Chili's, Denny's, holiday shopping, holiday shopping 2018, holidays, Hula's Island Grill, IHOP, Mission Hill Creamery, Paradise Beach Grille, Pono Hawaiian Grill, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz restaurants, Woodstock's Pizza
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