Cooks 2017

Seasoned Chef Gives Davis Students The Local-Food Treatment.
Bringing locally sourced, high-quality ingredients to students

Filipino Flavor – Olla Swanson Cooks Up Family Traditions
Swanson inherited the natural ability to cook traditional-style Filipino dishes from her mother,

Theresa St. Clair Creates Extraordinary Recipes for Farm Fresh To You
Her job is to create delicious, enticing recipes using produce with which people might be unfamiliar.

Marmalade – Making a Cherished Condiment with Local Citrus
In making marmalade, it is important to start with freshly harvested fruit

Nixtaco’s Owners Pass Down Traditions and Healthy Habits to Their Daughters
Neither of the owners started out wanting a career in food

Yang’s Noodles – Popular Sacramento Restaurant Serves Up Authentic, Homemade Flavors
Diners immediately will notice that the noodles are different lengths, thicknesses, and shapes — signs that they are not machine made.

Kushman on Wine – Cooking Up a Good Wine
For winemakers, blending is not just for wines that call themselves blends. All wines are blends.

Curating a Future Cook
You’d never know they came from such humble culinary backgrounds.

Common Thread – Sharing Food And Conversation Binds Us
The act of sharing a meal and conversation is the common thread that has woven us together since our species began.

Musings on a Nicaraguan Lunch
Exit the hashtags, plating trends, and brunch lines. Enter a renewed appreciation for hospitality, generosity, and food without pretense.

Food Literacy Center Changes Youths’ Lives For The Better
Every day, Isaac and his fellow classmates get to taste a new fruit or vegetable, which helps them get over their fear of unknown foods, building them into food adventurers.