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Urban wineries bring grapes to where the action is

by Josh Kimball WHAT’S HAPPENING Wine-making isn’t limited to idyllic rural settings these days. The East Bay Vintners Alliance is a group of wine makers who truck grapes in from wine country and work their grapey alchemy right in the city. We started to see urban wineries (and the buzz that followed them) pop up […]

Best of 2008: Reality check at UnFancy Food Show

by Nina Elder WHAT’S HAPPENING The second-annual UnFancy Food Show — a celebration of handmade, decidedly unfussy food — was held at a dive bar in Brooklyn on June 29, 2008. Visitors could sample goods from nearly 20 of the area’s best “unfancy” producers. Treats included country pâté with wild ramps; blackberry ice cream; and direct-trade, […]

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