Tanya Holland on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: January 22, 2023)
Tanya Holland’s California Soul is the name of the newly published book by the popular chef, author, tv personality and community leader. Holland studied in France, has cooked in top restaurants in New York and Boston and has owned and operated several acclaimed and well-loved restaurants in Oakland and San Francisco, including Brown Sugar Kitchen.
Holland joins host Clark Wolf for some illuminating and engaging conversation about her challenges and successes and the road ahead.
Savoring Sonoma: The Hour welcomes chef/owner Jamilah Nixon of JAM’s Joy Bungalow, when we dig into her history; from Sonoma County to the shrimp farms of Vietnam, and back. Her Mexican, Creole, and California ancestry, along with her formal and informal training, is expressed in foods she sells…
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…
This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour we have a Farmers Dozen. That is, six folks in food and farming talking about the last 50 years here in that world of bounty in Sonoma County, and six young folks just getting into or carrying on the tradition of good farming in our community. It all happened…
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…
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,…
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…