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2009 Event Schedule |
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 Saturday
August 15, 2009 |
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Life
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| 10:00 am |
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| 10:30 am |
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| 11:00 am |
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Beekeeping |
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| 11:30 am |
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| 12:00 pm |
Apple sauce eating contest |
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"Going to Seed"
- heirloom style
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| 12:30 pm |
Apple pie eating
contest |
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| 1:00 pm |
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Milking a Goat |
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| 1:30 pm |
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| 2:00 pm |
Caramel apple eating contest |
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Beekeeping
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| 2:30 pm |
Apple juggling contest |
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| 3:00 pm |
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The Art of Sheep Shearing
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| 3:30 pm |
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| 4:00 pm |
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Chickens in Your Backyard |
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| 4:30 pm |
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| 5:00 pm |
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 Sunday
August 16, 2009 |
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Life
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| 11:00 am |
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Beekeeping |
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| 11:30 am |
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| 12:00 pm |
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Harmony Farms
"Fall & Winter Veggies"
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| 12:30 pm |
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| 1:00 pm |
Apple sauce eating contest |
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Milking a Goat |
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| 1:30 pm |
Apple pie eating
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| 2:00 pm |
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"Going to Seed"
- heirloom style
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| 2:15 pm |
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| 2:30 pm |
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| 3:00 pm |
Caramel apple eating contest |
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The Art of Sheep Shearing
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| 3:30 pm |
Apple juggling contest |
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| 4:00 pm |
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Chickens in Your Backyard |
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 Saturday
August 15, 2009 |
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Dish |
| 11:30 am |
Carol Kozlowski-Every
Kozlowski Farms |
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| 1:00 pm |
Doug Nicosia
Sensuous Farms |
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| 2:30 pm |
Christopher Greenwald |
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 Sunday
August 16, 2009 |
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Dish |
| 12:00 pm |
Joe Reuter
Green Grocer |
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| 1:30 pm |
Jill Nussinow
Vegetarian Connection |
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| 3:00 pm |
Billy Reid
Hopmonk Tavern |
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| Relish Culinary Adventures - presenting Chef Demos and Tastings |
 
Relish Culinary Adventures is a culinary education business in Healdsburg, California, in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country. Relish combines talented chefs, fabulous cuisine, and captivating Sonoma County locations, including the new Relish Culinary Center, to create one-of-a-kind wine country cooking classes, tours and other culinary events for individuals, groups, and businesses. All of our events feature locally-grown and/or organic ingredients whenever possible, illustrating the bounty of this wonderful region and leaving guests with a "sense of place" that is all about Sonoma County.
Our goal is to celebrate seasonal, local food and provide afresh and stimulating learning experience for everyone at every event.
Founded by Donna del Rey in 2003, Relish offers classes on a wide range of topics from wine country cuisine to ethnic specialties, wine and beer education to cheese making workshops, canning &preserving to children's cooking classes. In addition, Relish hosts events that bring people together in the kitchen such as private cooking parties and corporate team-building events.
For each event, we thoughtfully match each location with a skilled chef and class theme, resulting in a unique “personality” for each event. Most classes include a full meal of the featured recipes (no skimpy tastes here) paired with excellent local wines specially selected for the menu.
Relish supports the bounty of local chefs, farmers, wine experts and food purveyors in Sonoma County from whom we build an impressive list of class instructors. We have cultivated relationships with local farms, cheesemakers, olive oil producers and other artisans and our local farmers markets and we encourage guests to support sustainable farms.
In addition to our scheduled cooking classes, Relish offers private events for groups and businesses, organizes culinary tours, is a responsive operator for tour groups, and sponsors chef demonstrations at a variety of culinary events in Sonoma County including the Gravenstein Apple Fair and the Artisan Cheese Festival.
Photograph by Michal Venera. Courtesy of Traditional Home magazine.
Visit Relish Culinary! Download all the delicious 2009 recipes by clicking the dishes in the schedule above!
Get Adobe Acrobat here. |
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| About the Chefs |
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Carol Kozlowski-Every, Kozlowski Farms |
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Carol Kozlowski-Every is third generation of Sonoma County agricultural heritage. She is involved in the daily operations and management of Kozlowski Farms along with her brother Perry Kozlowski, Sister Cindy Kozlowski-Hayworth and Mother Carmen Kozlowski.
Carol specializes her business expertise in the sales and marketing division of all Kozlowski Farms and Russian River Organic products on the national and local levels. She also works in the development of many of their specialty, natural and organic products.
Residing in Santa Rosa with her husband Paul, together they have two children; Tracy Dutton of Sebastopol and Kimberly Knechtle of Santa Rosa and six grandchildren. Carol is currently on the Board of Directors and is the current Secretary for the Russian River Winegrowers Association, is an active member of Farm Trails and the Sonoma County Farm Bureau.
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Doug Nicosia, Sensuous Farms |
To eat a meal prepared by chef/farmer Douglas Nicosia, to sample his food products or to take
one of his classes is an immersion in vibrant flavors and the joys of Old World methods. Doug
lived, cooked and traveled in Europe for nearly 20 years, igniting a passion for European Old
World food culture. His drive to discover every aspect of Old World techniques led him to Le
Cordon Bleu in Paris – but not for the reason you might assume. He attended the Saucier
program there, but his real reason for going to Paris was to gain access to Le Cordon Bleu’s
library, which houses source materials detailing long-forgotten cooking practices and ingredients.
This attention to centuries-old details informs every decision he makes, from how his recipes
are made, to the ingredients he chooses, all the way down to how each specific vegetable, fruit or herb is farmed. His Sonoma County farm and food company, Sensuous Farms, is the ultimate expression of Old World farm-to-table food sourcing.
“With every class I teach, every meal I make and every artisanal product I create, I want to
encourage people to slow down and truly savor every delicious moment.”
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Christopher Greenwald |
Christopher Greenwald is a maverick chef who has cooked in California’s wine country since 1998. From the Chez Panisse-sponsored garden project at the Sierra Youth Center to multi-course, pinot noir soaked soirees at Iron Horse to intimate VIP receptions for some of the biggest names in rock and roll, chef Christopher provides a unique and exciting forum for the palate. As the Chef/Owner of Bay Laurel Culinary, Chef Greenwald continues to combine his years of experience in the kitchen and on the farm with his passion for travel and different cultures, presenting wine-friendly global comfort cuisine that is both casual and elegant.
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Billy Reid, Hopmonk Tavern |
Billy Reid is the Executive Chef at Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol. Billy’s culinary background includes studies at the Las Vegas Culinary Institute with Master Chef Raimund Hoffmeister, followed by two years in the kitchen at Fiamma Trattoria and Bar at the MGM Grand under Chef Michael White and three years at the New York New York Hotel and Casino. Billy moved to the wine country in 2007 to work with with Thad Lineman and Ryan Jackson of Tavistock Restaurants, including the Napa Valley Grille in Yountville, before shifting his attention to Sonoma County. Billy is thoroughly enjoying running the kitchen at Hopmonk where he gets to introduce people to unexpected flavors in food and beer pairings. |
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Doug Peters, Peters' Chocolates presented by FarmTrails |
Doug Peters came to Sonoma County from the SF Bay Area in 1980. While working full time for Public Works of Sonoma County, he and his wife Pat became active members in Sonoma County Farm Trails. With a background in horticulture, Doug brought his Japanese Maple nursery to the FT Map. Making chocolates was a hobby for many years. During that time Doug worked on several techniques to continually improve his Truffles. After taking classes in candy making and learning from other chocolatiers, especially Alice Medrich, Doug gradually developed his own technique. His approach to chocolate making is to use the finest ingredients that allow the pure chocolate flavor to come through. He works with high quality, dark Belgium chocolate with a 72% cocoa solids and local Certified Organic cream. After 15 years the hobby became a business and he began selling the Truffles last summer at two local Farmers Markets – Saturday mornings 9-12:00 at the Healdsburg Farmers Market, and Windsor Farmers Market Sunday mornings10-1:00pm. He is still an active member of Sonoma County Farm Trails with his chocolates now on the Map.
(707)829-1572 • ppetersflowers@earthlink.net • www.PetersChocolates.com
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Joe Reuter, Green Grocer |
Chef/Owner Joe Rueter is a CIA grad and French Laundry alum. He has worked in restaurants all over the globe from Charlie Trotters in Chicago to Checchino dal 1887 in Rome and Country in New York. Long before opening the GreenGrocer with his wife Susanna Davis, Joe began a passionate career in farm direct foods and has developed a strong philosophy rooted in the “eat local” food movement. By starting a 16 acre farm he filled the void for locally grown beef, pork, poultry and tree fruit, to stock his original Wise Traditions Market & Café in Essex, MA. Chef Joe Rueter has furthered his education for the Animal Husbandry, Slaughter, Butchery, Traditional Salumi, Permaculture farming and Lacto-fermentation through experience. His goal is to concern himself and educate others in Gastronomy, the discipline that concerns itself with all things pertaining to food and nourishment though eating.
“Once I knew how to cook meat perfectly, I learned to butcher. It was only natural to then begin raising animals myself when the quality I expected was not available locally. Of necessity and respect I learned to slaughter and to utilize every part of an animal.” - Chef Joe Rueter
The philosophy of “head to tail” and “range to plate” is applied to everything edible and Joe embraces this process in every ingredient of every dish at the GreenGrocer. Since moving to California and starting a business Joe is also concerning himself with carbon footprints and the economy. Between the two you’ll have enough to keep conversation rolling for hours. Add pesticides and government-subsidized farming and that’s more than enough for a three course dinner. But today, Windsor-area residents have a gastronomically conscientious alternative for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The GreenGrocer may not offer a myriad selection of salsas, but the one they do carry is homemade, everything in it is from within 150 miles of the store and in most cases they can even tell you who grew it. Breakfast burritos with duck confit, fresh chocolate chip cookies and rosemary infused lemonade only begin to frame up what The GreenGrocer is all about. The equation goes like this: Local plus Sustainable equals Delicious. So if you’re tired of eating hard imported plums & waxy apples, tasteless unidentifiable meat & fish and heavily processed rancid white flour & other grains then check out The GreenGrocer and Eat 150.
-Joe Rueter & Elliot Davis, ©2009 |
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Jill Nussinow, The Veggie Queen |
Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen™, is a cookbook author, culinary educator, Registered Dietitian, and freelance writer whose goal is to get people eating more plant foods. She is the author of The Veggie Queen: Vegetables Get the Royal Treatment cookbook and stars in the DVD Pressure Cooking: A Fresh Look, Delicious Dishes in Minutes. She has 2 websites http://www.theveggiequeen.com and http://www.pressurecookingonline.com. Jill does cooking demonstrations for large and small groups throughout the United States. She has shown thousands of people how to cook quinoa in the past 15 years, and it’s her “staple” grain.
Jill uses locally grown produce throughout the year and encourages others to do the same. Jill writes regularly for La Voz newspaper in Sonoma County and for a number of online publications and websites, including Vegan Culinary Experience and VegFamily. You can find Jill online on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/theveggiequeen and on Facbook http://www.facebook.com/jill.nussinow.
Watch for Jill’s next book on pressure cooking, due out later this year. |
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Children's Corner |
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This is the place for our young visitors to come
and be creative. Projects to make and take home. |
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Good
Old Fashioned Country-Fun Contests! |
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Test your skill at eating a freshly made Gravenstein
Apple pie with no hands!! Work your way through a delicious caramel
apple; gulp a jar of apple sauce or show off your apple juggling
skills.

Apple Pie baking contest, sponsored
by the Sebastopol
Area Chamber of Commerce.
Click
here for entry form and rules. (pdf)
Questions regarding the Apple Pie Baking Contest, please contact the Sebastopol
Area Chamber of Commerce at 707 823-3032 or email chamber@sebastopol.org. |
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Life on the Farm |
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Observe many of the animals found on Sonoma
County farms. Milk a goat, watch a sheep get sheared, learn about
raising bees or relax and listen to songs about being a cowboy.
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Sonoma County Farm Trails Scholarship Presentation |
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Heather Borck and Megan Renker
awarded scholarships by Scholarship Committee Chairperson
Phebe Sorensen at the 2005 Gravenstein Apple Fair. |
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Gravenstein Apple Fair tradition awards the Santa Rosa
Junior College Sonoma County Farm Trails Memorial Scholarship
and a second scholarship, the John Smith Memorial Scholarship
which honors the Farm Advisor who encouraged farmers to create
Farm Trails almost 30 years ago.
The 2009 scholarship presentations will be made on Saturday, 8/15 at 2:50 pm, Stage One.
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Special Attractions |
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- Sonoma County Museum on the Go
- Early Day Gas Engine Club
- Get lost in our Hay Maze
- Wine & Microbrew Tent that features the best in local wines
and brews
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List of
Educational Booths and Community Resources |
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