Sacramento has flourished into a foodie scene with its food truck events, new restaurants popping up almost every week and farm-to-fork designation. Christopher Davis-Murai, aka The Bicycle Chef, has been on the Sac food scene for many years and has clear opinions about the city’s culinary climate, which restaurants are worth checking out and which [...]
Categories: Baking, Savory Details, Vegetarian/Vegan
A mid-summer lovers’ tale. Not everyone finds a partner who fills out her life in a way that is about choice rather than necessity. Many of us move through our lives, find love and settle into a family. Often that sense of calm becomes a sense of settling with perhaps a little regret sprinkled in. [...]
Categories: Baking, Sweet Stories • Tags: baking, breakfast
We hear a lot about the challenges of being a single mom; in fact, many of us were raised by one, so we get it. Not so often, though, do we hear from single dads. Here’s a story from that perspective. Like many single parents, Martín’s main challenges are finances and time, but he’s driven [...]
Categories: Poultry/Game • Tags: cooking with kids, everyday cooking, kid friendly recipes
Grow Together, Work Together With $2500 available on her credit card and an education and work history tasty enough to make anyone drool, Ginger Elizabeth opened her chocolate boutique in Sacramento. She’d worked in LA, New York, Chicago, but she was homesick. Instead of returning to Placerville, she settled in Sacramento, where she believed success [...]
Categories: Baking, Farm to Fork, Sweet Stories
While his peers were out galavanting at local fast food joints, Jeremy holed up in his grandmother’s kitchen peeking into sweaty pots of sauce. Eclectic family meals resulted from his grandparents’ stints in Taiwan, Korea and Hawaii, which infused their traditional Italian palates, so the family would wind around the dinner table and share Italian [...]
Categories: Poultry/Game, Savory Details
Jeremy did not learn the value of whole food or home cooking from osmosis. He’s got a rich history of home-made stories, which we’ll share next week. For now, here’s the tale of what he did with that history. Settling at the Maron’s table means you’ll have one hand wrapped around a wine glass while [...]
Categories: Poultry/Game, Savory Details
By age 12, Jenny was a latch-key baker. She’d sit in class and dream about cookies. Once she arrived home, she’d call her mom at work and get permission to apron up and get her bake on. When Sandy came home, like the kids in those 1950’s TV shows, she could not resist the perfect, [...]
Categories: Baking, Sweet Stories
Imagine a seven year-old girl and her mother standing side by side, arms busy, voices shifting from a buzz to a giggle as they fill the bowl, turn on the mixer. It’s a scene out of a 1950’s TV show, right? Perhaps. But what the viewer doesn’t see is the mother’s eyes bouncing between the [...]
Categories: Baking, Sweet Stories
Dear Potential Sponsor, We, a Sacramento-based photographer and writer team, have created the award-winning blog Food, Love & Tradition in order to chronicle and share the stories behind folks’ most meaningful recipes. Additionally, we share stories of businesses embracing the farm-to-fork movement and those producing fresh food, and organizations offering food education. All of this [...]
Categories: News
On March 17, 2013 Glenn celebrated his fifth birthday. He was already married, had recorded an album and bought a home, which is a lot for a five year-old. But the lucky guy actually has two birthdays: the first marks his birth and the second marks his time as a US resident. Because he’d received [...]
Categories: Baking, Holiday Traditions, Meat, Savory Details, St. Paddy's Day • Tags: Guinness Stew, irish american stew, Irish Cooking, Irish Stew, Irish Traditions, St. Paddy's Day, St. Pat
As a wee lad in Celbridge, Ireland, young Glenn ate beef. Not only did he eat beef, he ate mashed potatoes, ham, cabbage, and anything else his Nana placed in front of him at the cramped table around which only three children at a time could eat. His favorite though was her stew. While not [...]
Categories: Holiday Traditions, Meat, Savory Details, St. Paddy's Day
Dear Readers, As you know, we have been changing our site to make it as visitor-friendly as possible. Additionally, after considering feedback from others within the blogging community, we’ve decided to change the way we share stories. Without sacrificing our style and the stories we share, we’ve decided to present our tales in two parts [...]
Categories: News, St. Paddy's Day • Tags: family recipes, family traditions, Guinness Stew, irish american stew, Irish Cooking, Irish Stew, Irish Traditions, St. Paddy's Day, St. Pat