About Monthly Events
We offer monthly educational events featuring presentations and demonstrations by distinguished experts from every corner of the culinary community. We tour, we have tastings, and we feast at places of culinary interest, such as specialty food producers, cooking schools, restaurants, wineries, ranches, and farms. Past event topics have included pairing Russian River wine with Thai curries, exploring the culinary art of brewing fresh roasted coffee, tasting local extra virgin olive oils, and discovering the bright flavors of Oaxacan cuisine. We have tasted heirloom tomatoes right off the vine at the California Coast Wine Center Gardens and abalone fresh from the waters of Tomales Bay.	One of our communal feasts at Terra Sonoma at "Life with Verjus" event in August 2006
We have gone behind the scenes at celebrated venues like Dean and DeLuca and the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. Guest speakers have taught us how to style food, how to write about it, and how to bring a product to market. Each event includes a communal feast, usually a potluck that extends the theme of the event. These meals provide a time for enjoying each other's company and networking.
"If you would like to know the difference between Inchelium Red and Polish Softneck garlics, the way Eritreans debone a chicken in a flash, and how terroir imprints Sonoma County wines, this Guild is for you. Members explore the art of cuisine and science of food in enjoyable, educational monthly meetings." —Barbara Bowman, Writer and consultant, past president, and member since 1990

This Year's Events 2006 Bo Simmons of the Wine Library in Healdsburg   Sushi Night January Save the Rainforest - Eat More Chocolate Hotel Petaluma Banquet Facility, Petaluma February Wine Library Tour Sonoma County Wine Library, Healdsburg March Sushi Night Enmanji Buddhist Temple/JACL Hall, Sebastopol April So You Want to be a Wine Judge Limerick Lane Winery, Healdsburg May The Wonder of Spices Bauman College, Penngrove June Seaweed Bodega Coast Inn, Bodega July Visiting Sonoma County's Plant Wizard Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Farms, Sebastopol August Life With Verjus Terra Sonoma and Garden Creek Winery, Geyserville September Summerfield Foods & Tomato Fest Summerfield Foods, Sebastopol October Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Bill Churchill, SRJC Instructor and Chef Ian Sharp, Two Rock Coast Guardstation at Petaluma Women's Club November

Sushi Night Terra Sonoma and Garden Creek Winery, Geyserville

A Sampling of Previous Events 2005 Patty Facendini of Patty James Cooking School   Making Goat Cheese at Redwood Hill Farms January Sensuality, Love, and Food Symposium John Ash at Barndiva February Tamale Hands-On Workshop First United Methodist Church March Got Goat Milk? Redwood Hill Farms April Clay Pot Cookery with Paula Wolfert Ramekins Culinary School May A Zinfully Good Time Limerick Lane Cellars June Picnic at Shone Farm Shone Farm July Ice Cream Fantasia Pyr-Creek Farm August Eating for Health Patty James Cooking School September Cool Cocktails Stillwater Spirits October Potatoes Oh! Tommy Boy's Organic Farm November Pairings At Pignoli Pignoli Bistro and Beer Bar      Ice Cream flavors at Ice Cream Fantasia event Potatoes in the barn at Oh! Tommy Boy's Organic Farm

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