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The Bite Goes On – Renegade Foods

Iona Campbell and Kalie Marder are the co-founders of Renegade Food. From their website, ‘Iona is a life-long vegetarian and now vegan. As an animal lover and foodie, she is passionate about creating plant-based recipes inspired by their traditional counterparts. She has a background in the food industry and has […]

The Bite Goes On – Merrilee Olson, Preserve Farm Kitchens

Merrilee Olson is the Founder of Preserve Farm Kitchens. Merrilee created this company because she was shocked that unsold product from the farmers market was being uneaten and she was determined to find a way to help farmers create another revenue stream and not waste their produce that they spent […]

The Bite Goes On – State of Sonoma

The “shelter-in-place” order has been given by our California Governor Gavin Newsom. We are working from home this week. We joined forces with our brother podcast The Wine Makers and decided to practice “social distancing” by trying out the Zoom app and continue recording shows for our listeners. Sondra talks […]

The Bite Goes On – Michael Volpatt, Big Bottom Market

We have a new friend and what a fun episode to record. Michael is engaging and enthusiastic and is a brilliant business owner. We spend time talking about Guerneville (his town), BISCUITS (yes in capital letters) he brought us some and they were divine!! Oprah named his biscuits as one […]

The Bite Goes On – Alycia Harshfield, CRAF

Alycia is the Executive Director of the California Restaurant Association Foundation (CRAF). Alycia’s enthusiasm in indicative of why this Foundation is able to raise money and succeed to help so many people. The Foundation is the helping hand that empowers California’s restaurant workforce through education, scholarships, and emergency assistance. The […]

The Bite Goes On – Hilary Austen, West County Wild

Hilary always had a dream to make cheese back when Laura Chenel was just starting out, but her carreer got in the way. Now in her ‘so called’ retirement she is working to create a culinary homestead property that includes cheesemaking, farming (Beet Generation @beetgenerationfarm), bread baking, (sara Owens @sarah_c_owens) […]

The Bite Goes On – Arden Coturri

We sure did get an Olive Oil education during this episode with Arden Coturri. Her passion for olive oil started back in the early 1990’s and decided that they would plant a family olive grove with trees that were imported from Italy – (in fact about 10,000 tiny plants were […]

The Bite Goes On – Jon Sebastiani, Sonoma Brands

This episode with Jon Sebastiani could have gone on for 5 hours — there was just so much to talk about. We bounce around from what it was like growing up in a family wine business, creating and selling KRAVE jerky (to Hershey’s), running marathons, starting a new business (Sonoma […]

The Bite Goes On – Regina and Josh Silvers, Jackson’s Bar and Oven

Jackson’s Bar and Oven has one of the most popular restaurants in Santa Rosa. After the birth of his son Jackson, chef and owner Josh Silvers began looking for a family-friendly yet hip place in downtown Santa Rosa where he could get some of his favorite comfort foods. And when […]

The Bite Goes On – Amy’s Wicked Slush

Amy Covin is the North End of Bawstin (Boston as we would say). How did this CPA end up making Boston Slush in Wine Country. When passion calls, you figure it out.

That is what Amy Covin did in 2016. In late 2016, she took a trip back to Boston, she […]

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