Patrick O'Connell has been spinning magic - now at a Michelin three star level - for 45 years at the famed Inn At Little Washington. Host Clark Wolf sat down with him on his lovely garden terrace recently and talked about the evolution of restaurants in ways reminiscent of how we consider things here in Sonoma County. 
Then it was on to the next, newest generation of fine cooks with Sean and Melissa McGaughey of Quail and Condor, Troubadour, and Molti Amici. 
This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour we have a Farmers Dozen.
Sometime after the Callahan family moved to thirty-four acres of bucolic Sonoma County near Petaluma, former nurse and bar certified lawyer Cindy Callahan realized that our pastoral region produces rich grasses, as high as an elephant’s eye. Her solution to a growing problem was sheep. Soon enough she became a passionate shepherd and then, logically, an award-winning cheesemaker.
Callahan passed away in early June of this year, leaving her longtime partner and son Liam, along with his wife Diana, to run what has become a beacon of fine cheese making. Liam joins host Clark Wolf to tell the family story and to honor the memory and hard work of a pioneer and a generous, warm and talented mother who has been an inspiration to many far and wide.
Few people alive today hold as much history and continue to have as much impact on our community of food than Lindsey Shere. Born in Chicago, her family came West, where she was raised on a 500-acre ranch in Healdsburg that included a stretch of the Russian River. In the kitchen from an early age, she later went on to work as pastry chef of Chez Panisse for some (26) years, co-founded Healdsburg’s Downtown Bakery and Creamery, produced both editions of Chez Panisse Desserts, and was part of the legendary Bakers Dozen. 
This week our guest is writer and photographer Yvonne Michie Horn who makes her home here in Sonoma County, where her family has lived for three generations. She’s written for Bon Appetit, Golf Digest, Quarterly Review of Wines, and metropolitan newspapers across the United States, including the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Her latest book Unique Eats and Eateries of Sonoma County: The People and Stories Behind the Food is what brings her to Savoring Sonoma. And Savor we do! 
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