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Welcome to The Romantic Table, an online magazine about the wine and food of California's
Central Coast, featuring wine reviews, California Central Coast recipes, food and wine news and
culinary events from the California Central Coast.
Central Coast Farmers' Markets
Farmers Market June 27, 2009
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A bright warm morning brought out the shoppers and more luscious summer produce as well as a renegade Herford steer at the Templeton's Farmers Market!
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Wine And Food Articles
June's Featured Recipes
2009-06-01 23:46:45 ID=399:1
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With the start of our summer, we can all look forward to some unusual Central Coast Recipes that offer more than one way to serve them to your friends and families.
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How to Clean Calamari
2009-06-26 01:18:02 ID=417:1
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Calamari or Cuttlefish are one of the best food delicacies from the ocean. The best for most recipes are small wild caught cuttlefish. These little fellas are usually sold whole and you must do the cleaning yourself. But don't worry, it is very easy to do.
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Central Coast Olive Growers Have Strong Showing at the 2009 Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition
2009-06-23 00:18:46 ID=413:1
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Results of the olive oil competition were just announced and Central Coast Olive Growers were well represented in the winners list of the 2009 Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition.
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This Week's Central Coast Recipe
Scallops with Two Bean Cream
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Scallops with Two Bean Cream is a chic modern combination of seared scallops and bean creams, The scallops are lightly floured, seared, then served with a combination of black and white bean "cream" sauces; an old mellow Italian white bean recipe and a spicy black bean recipe from Colonial California. Kind of an Old World classic meets a New World upstart you might say.
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Central Coast Does Well at The 2009 Pinot Days Grand Tasting Event in San Francisco2009-07-01 16:27:50 ID=426:2
www.vinography.com
COMMENT: Vinography is reporting the event, and places three out of the top six Pinot Noirs from Santa Barbara (Santa Rita Hills AVA) and Monterey (Santa Lucia Highlands AVA) Counties. These are some of the coolest areas of the Central Coast.
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Cooking with Rock Salt Slabs as Stoneware
2009-07-01 16:14:26 ID=425:2
www.montereyherald.com
COMMENT: Not sure where to file this one, but we thought it was interesting. It appears that "Himalayan Rock Salt" slabs as cooking utensils is the new "in" thing in some cooking circles.
It was apparently featured on "Iron Chef." Well that's not too surprising, that show is a kind of salute to masochistic cooking tendencies --grilling some poor unsuspecting vegetable on a slab of salt sounds in character.
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New Comer Caliza winery scores astonishing wine at 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
2009-06-27 17:32:00 ID=423:2
www.sanluisobispo.com
COMMENT: Carl Bowker, a relative new comer to the wine industry scored a best of class in the Syrah category, and an astonishing best red wine overall for his Caliza Winery 2006 Syrah. Though not a Cinderella story as the article suggest. A lot of hard work went into the win.
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