LeGacy presents “A Christmas Carol” on November 29-December 24
LeGacy Productions will present “A Christmas Carol” at the Nevada Theatre from November 29- December 24. Susan Mason directs the local all-star cast in this delightful adaptation by Jeffrey Mason. The talented Jeffrey Mason also plays Ebeneezer Scrooge, the London businessman who must look back at his life to examine his wrong doings, and repent […]
Fourth annual Nevada County Food & Farm Conference is January 18-19
By Nevada County Sustainable Food and Farm Conference This year’s Food & Farm Conference is the fourth annual and is being held on January 18-19 at the Grass Valley Veterans Hall and next door at the Grass Valley Charter School. Each year, the Food & Farm Conference brings together a diverse panel of speakers, farming […]
Olive Vitality earns coveted certification for olive-oil tasters
Wine has Sommeliers, and beer has Cicerones (pronounced sis-uh-rohn) , turning out batches of certified beer experts, as we wrote this summer. The olive oil industry — booming in California — also has its own elite certification program, and a local has just been certified. Jeanette Campbell Angell, who owns Olive Vitality in downtown Grass […]
New video: A preview of Cornish Christmas 2013
Attend the 46th annual Cornish Christmas festival in the historic California Gold Rush town of Grass Valley. It is from 6 to 9 p.m. Fridays Nov. 29 through Dec. 20. Return to a Christmas celebration of more than 200 years ago. Recapture the spirit of Christmas past with vendors dressed in Cornish attire all set […]
AAA projects fewer Thanksgiving travelers
By AAA AAA projects 43.4 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 44 million people who traveled last year. This decrease falls just shy of last Thanksgiving’s four-year peak since the recession-driven declines in 2008-2009 when Thanksgiving travel fell by […]
“Original Local” celebrates Thanksgiving recipes from the First Americans
“Local foods have garnered much attention in recent years, but the concept is hardly new: indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature’s gifts. Their menus were truly the ‘original local,’ celebrated here in 135 home-tested recipes paired with stories from tribal activists, food researchers, families, and chefs,” according to Minnesota Historical Press, reporting […]
Best fresh, local turkeys from the Sierra Foothills and Central Valley
Our region is lucky because of the abundance of fresh, local turkeys that are available for the holidays. Some of them are sold by national food retailers such as Williams-Sonoma, but the turkey farms are in our own backyard. Here are some of our favorites. You can find many of them at markets throughout the […]
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