Food & Wine

Twice a week I take a class at the gym. It's the perfect class for me because it's only 25 minutes.

(Sure, I take the hour long classes sometimes. But usually about halfway through I am feeling like I'm going to be sick and I stare...

Meat department manager and master butcher Mike Carroll and his crew were getting ready for St. Patrick's Day, when Sacramento "goes green" March 17. In the labyrinthian prep areas behind the Corti Bros. Market meat counter, Carroll trimmed and brine...

While the movie industry has its Academy Awards, the James Beard Foundation Awards represent the restaurant and food world's top honors. This year's crop of nominees features some rare Sacramento flavor vying with the country's top restaurants for thes...

Red Rabbit opened earlier this month, and I’ve had the opportunity to swing by twice to check the place out. First, let me give my standard disclaimer for reviews of very new restaurants. I’m very understanding because they’ve just opened....

We love to Bake It With Booze, and we love to see what other bakers create. We highly recommend that you go check out The Domestic Rebel's new boozey creation: Blackberry wine & chocolate olive oil cupcakes. Sweet <3Pin It

One of the other amazing dishes I had the pleasure of learning how to make this past weekend during our Mediterranean cooking extravaganza was a dish called sigara borek. Sigara borek can loosely be described as a Turkish spring roll...it's a thin...

In this week's review, Sac Bee restaurant critic Blair Anthony Robertson takes a look at Hawks Restaurant in Granite Bay: The flavors and the combinations on the plate are broad, focused, often beautiful and, in the case of one dessert...

Went to Dallas but came home feeling as if I'd spent the holiday weekend in Napa Valley. The posh accommodations of The Four Seasons Resort, the addictive bread pudding in the hotel's Cottonwood Room, and the artistic duck dish at Urbano Cafe...

This is a Nana recipe that conjures up all kinds of memories.  I remember specifically when we would eat this dish and WHAT DISH Nana would prepare this in.  It really felt weird to make this in the wrong dish.  Although Nana make it in a Dansko baking dish–so at least I followed suit...

Sacramento Opera closes 2011-12 season with two performances of “Rigoletto”  The Sacramento Opera closes out the 2011-12 season with the performance of “Rigoletto” on Friday, February 24 and Sunday, February 26. As one of Verdi’s greatest works, “Rigoletto” is one of the most widely adapted operas of all time. Teaming up with the Sacramento Philharmonic,...