By Jenna Buhagiar, Vanessa Smith and Shelly Kessen As with many business professionals, lunch meetings are a usual occurrence for us around here, whether we are in Sacramento or on the road. While our business takes us everywhere from San Diego to Atlanta and even Miami, we often find ourselves traveling down 99 to our [...]
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by Lauren Walsh
The SacFoodies have written about OneSpeed Pizza in the past, but being new to the area I recently made my first visit with some friends and loved it! I ordered a salad, which was delicious, but I admittedly spent most of the meal stealing pizza from my fiancé. Can you blame me? If you have [...]
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by Brooke Burgess and Vanessa Smith Like Sonny and Cher or Bonnie and Clyde, what is possibly a more dynamic combination than Pizza and Rock? With plenty of buzz about the food, the awards – co-owner Tony Gemignani won the World Pizza Cup in Naples, Italy – and décor, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to [...]
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by Melissa Nielsen
The wonderful thing about homemade pizza is that there are basically no rules. As long as you have pizza dough, you have the freedom to put whatever toppings you want on it, make the dough as thick or thin as you want, and bake it however you’d like. I’m a big fan of classic cheese [...]
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by Brittany Mohr
A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of attending An Evening with Food Heroes with fellow foodies Angela and Amy, hosted by Eventbrite San Francisco at Terroir Natural Wine Merchant. The event was timed with the release of Georgia Pellegrini’s book, “Food Heroes,” which documents her international travels in pursuit of true heroes of [...]
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by Edie Campbell-Urban
Chicken Pizza: Baked chicken breast, mushrooms, and a fresh basil, garlic, tomato sauce with mozzarella cheese from Zachary’s Chicago Pizza in Berkeley, CA. Zachary’s Chicago Pizza 1853 Solano Ave. Berkeley CA 94707 Phone: (510) 525-5950
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Good news, Hot Italian just received their liquor license, and in addition to now stocking a full bar, this has allowed them to add a few new dishes to their menu. We were recently invited to sample a few items from their new line of Affogati (Italian for “drowned”) desserts: a heaping scoop of gelato [...]
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by Cristina Dayton
The classic Margherita pizza has been a staple in Italian cuisine for centuries. In June 1889, to honor the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan chef Raffaele Esposito created the “Pizza Margherita,” garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil, to represent the colors of the Italian flag. This recipe is a variation [...]
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Looking for some fun things to put on your schedule this month? Here are a couple local foodie events worth checking out! Festa Della Donna – Festa Della Donna, also known as International Women’s Day in Italy, is coming up on March 8! What better way to celebrate womanhood than with your girlfriends, sisters, and [...]
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by Maria Chacon Kniestedt
Who doesn’t like pizza – bready, cheesy wonder that it is? So, when my book club recently planned our February meeting for the Folsom location of Chicago Fire, I couldn’t wait to tote my camera (in addition to my book) and check it out. After a thirty-minute wait on a Friday night (they don’t take [...]
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