Sacramento and Davis residents will visit a Grand Aioli feast in the southern France style this weekend, without having to go all the way to Provence. The Davis Farm to School Connection, a nonprofit organization and project of the Davis Farmers Market Foundation, along with Slow Food Yolo will host its sixth annual Village Feast. Three hundred community members will enjoy this Grand Aioli community dinner under the sycamore trees in Central Park Saturday in Davis. Attendees can taste local and fresh ingredients from Davis Farmers Market farmers in a four-course meal catered by Buckhorn Grill. To make the event zero-waste, participants are asked to bring their own plates, silverware and

Raley's heir Michael Teel and partners will open a new cafe, wine bar and market called Good Eats in East Sacramento Monday. Similar to Selland's Market-Café and Corti Brothers, which operate on other end of East Sacramento, the kitchen will offer hot and cold takeout foods, wine and coffee. The specialty grocery will include wine, butchered meats, seafood, cheeses, bakery items and flowers. On Thursday, Good Eats official Julie Rollofson led food and wine tastings to prepare for a soft opening set for 6 a.m. Monday. The opening follows a lengthy renovation of what used to be Andiamo restaurant and the Rosemont Grill at 3145 Folsom Blvd., near Alhambra Boulevard. The establishment promi

Corti Brothers co-owner Darrell Corti does not own a microwave. He knows better than to put a loaf of bread upside down. The one time he did, his grandmother hit him and told him bread is never left upside down. It should have the bottom part facing down, because that was how it was made. Corti discussed his experience with food, being a grocer and many other topics Sunday night with Elaine Corn, food journalist, author and contributing reporter to Capital Public Radio. The talk was part of Time Tested Books Living Library series. The bookstore was filled with about 70 people, among them chef Patrick Mulvaney, eager to hear Corti discuss cooking, the palate and "the fate of the Corti Bro

Meet 34-year-old local entrepreneur Makiko Yamashita from Kobe, Japan. Makiko has been living in the United States since 1999 and is freshly graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago. Traveling, business smarts and networking have inspired her to incorporate her exotic fruit wine business, Radee Wine, Inc. She is not only the first person to introduce the wine from Thailand to the United States and is the only distributor in the country—she has brought the exotic potion right here to Sacramento. Yamashita incorporated Radee in August. However, she said she just received her first shipment of the products and began operating just over two weeks