Jonah Raskin

Sonoma County members of Slow Food, their families and friends, are fortunate to have several very good bakeries making very good breads locally. The newest member of the tribe of first class bakeries, or boulangeries, as the French would say, is Goguette, which is located in central Santa Rosa, near...

Spring has finally sprung at Flatbed Farm in Glen Ellen. After a long, cold rainy winter, the sun is here again and skies are turning blue. The farm, which was closed for months because of last October’s fires, has bounced back in a big way. That’s good news for shoppers...

Founded in 1987, the Healdsburg Downtown Bakery & Creamery is one of the oldest and most reliable havens for good, wholesome nutritious food on the Healdsburg plaza. Over the past two decades it has become a tourist destination, even while it has continued to appeal to locals. The bakery, which...

The fires of October 2017 ravaged Sonoma County farms and disrupted the lives of farmers. But the fires also spared some farms and those farmers who were fortunate went on growing food for people. That’s what Yael and Paul and Zureal Bernier did. The sign in their house reads, “There’s never...

Old Hill Ranch & Will Bucklin: Good, Clean & Fair When I think of a vineyard steward and winemaker who embodies the Slow Food philosophy of “good, clean, and fair” I think first and foremost of Will Bucklin at Old Hill Ranch in Glen Ellen. Named after its founder, William…

Is the family-owned grocery store a relic of the past? What about the local meat market? Has it, too, gone the way of super stores and chains? And what about the small bakery that serves the community? If you think the answers to those questions, are “Yes,” “Yes” and “Yes”...

The Naked Pig might well be the smallest restaurant in Santa Rosa, though the tiny kitchen hasn’t cramped the style of the owners, Dalia Martinez and Jason Sakach, a husband and wife team, who bounce culinary ideas off one another and love the work that they do. That’s apparent to…

For years, whenever I heard anyone mention the number 64 I thought of the Beatles’ song, “When I’m Sixty-Four,” which has the refrain, “will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty-four?” These days when I hear that same number, I think about Prop 64. Prop…