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The Bee's Chris Macias has been included in the just-released collection "Best Food Writing 2012," edited by Holly Hughes. The April 18 story by Macias is about Edward Martinez, now an accomplished pastry chef whose early life seemed destined to be...

Don Knutson prepares to park his bike in a temporary corral in Sacramento. The city is testing a number of innovations that could make it more attractive to cyclists.In its July issue, Bicycling magazine placed Sacramento right in the middle of i...

Connor Ellison and his teammates finished ahead of a team of Sacramento police.With their parents serving as the sleep-deprived support crew, eight Folsom teenagers finished fifth out of 18 teams in the grueling 3,000 mile Race Across America. ...

"Believe & Achieve" team members descend Mosquito Ridge road near Foresthill, Calif., May 19, 2012. The Sacramento-area teens will be riding over 3000 miles in the Race Across America this summer.With their parents serving as the sleep-deprived ...

Don Knutson prepares to park his ride in a temporary corral provided by Sacramento's Park a Bike last week. The city is experimenting with taking single on-street parking spots and turning them into spaces for 10 bikes.With so many flashy, art-...

The Believe and Achieve team ascends Mosquito Ridge Road during a 75-mile training ride earlier this month. Competing in Race Across America is a huge undertaking, for riders and support team.When you enter the Race Across America, you sign up fo...

Bike commuter Matt Schott of Placerville gets fluids as Kevin Keady of Folsom greets Scott Anderson of Sacramento at an east Sacramento station promoting Bike Month, which runs through May. Want to get rolling? You can, even if you're not in gre...

Steve Tiller raised enough money through Kickstarter to produce his first batch of Bike Valet racks. Now he's grappling with expanding and merchandising his invention.Steven Tiller, the Sacramento carpenter-turned- designer whose bike storage rac...

You don't have to be a pro cyclist with 5 percent body fat, a $10,000 race bike and million-dollar lungs to enjoy the feeling of riding like a pro. All you have to do these days is enter something called a gran fondo, decide how much or how l...

A Cherubim Hummingbird and its builder, Shin-ichi Konno, third from left, draw an admiring group that includes Phillip Stout, right, and his father, Perry, at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in the Sacramento Convention Center.For years,...