Subscribe now! Get Summer in your mailbox
The summer issue of Word of Mouth is just around the corner! Our contributors have packed this magazine to the gills with stories, recipes, adventures and ideas to make your summer great. Copies available June 1st.
Want to have your very own copy delivered straight to your mailbox? Become a subscriber for $25 a year and Word of Mouth will be delivered directly to you.
|
|
Sneak Peek
The upcoming Summer issue of Word of Mouth features Wild Fish Restaurant in Little River. Owners Kelvin and Liz Jacobs are cooking up some of the freshest, most delicious seafood cuisine around. Liz's boundless creativity is currently applied to a new project: crafting a cookbook to share their time-tested recipes. Liz has generously offered to give Word of Mouth readers a sneak peek below. Learn more about this dynamic couple in the full article out soon. Wild-fish.com
|
|
Black Oak Coffee Roasters to Budapest?
My fave coffee spot in Ukiah received a cool honor at the Specialty Coffee Association of America's gathering in Seattle recently. Black Oak’s very own Steve Cuevas received first place at the Cup Tasters Championship! Have you ever heard the crew at Black Oak lined up at the counter slurping away at their delicious joe? That is cup tasting. Ask them sometime about how this helps them taste the nuance and flavors of their coffee. It’s a skill Steve has in spades. From the Black Oak Facebook Page: “Steve was ranked number one in the entire country for ‘the ability to taste, smell, concentrate, and recall’ coffees. We are insanely proud!” The world championship is in Budapest; we’ll wait to hear if Steve makes the trip. Well-done Black Oak Coffee Roasters!!! blackoakcoffeeroasters.com
|
|
Happy Birthday to us! Word of Mouth is celebrating our one year anniversary. And our team has only scratched the surface of sharing the great food, farms and fun of Mendocino County. We are raising the profile of the hardworking and talented folks of our area and even sneaking in some cool stories from abroad (see our Small World column). Thank you to our readers for helping us get where we are today. Thank you to our contributors who fill our pages with goodness. And special, heartfelt appreciations to our advertisers who make Word of Mouth go. We could not do it without you.
Adam’s Restaurant • American Craft Distillers • The Apple Farm • Arts Council of Mendocino • Assagiare Mendocino • AV Housing Assoc. • Barra of Mendocino • The Bewildered Pig • The Big Chief • Black Dog Farm & Catering • Black Oak Coffee • Bloom Waterbirth & Wellness • Boonville Hotel • Brewery Gulch Inn • Cat’s Meow • Celtic Heritage Destinations • Chop Chop • Eat Local NCO • Emandal Farm-on-a- River • Farmhouse Mercantile • Fetzer Vineyards • Filigreen Farm • Flow Restaurant & Lounge • Mendocino County Local Food Guide • Farmers Guild • Ford House • Fortunate Farm • Frey Wines • Garfield Construction • Good Earth Kitchen • Grace Hudson Museum • Grange School of Adaptive Agriculture • Grown Local Mendocino County • Howard Memorial Hospital • It’s Time Willits • John Ford Ranch • Lauren’s • Lemon Fresh Design • Local Food Guide • Long Valley Feed & Supply • Mariposa Market • McFadden Vineyard • Mendo Ferments • Mendo-Lake Food Hub • Mendo Sun Market • Mendocino Apple Fair • Mendocino Area Parks Assoc. • Mendocino College Foundation • Mendocino County Museum • Mendocino Film Festival • Mendocino Organics • North Coast Brewing Co. • North Country Real Estate-Anne Fashauer • Not So Simple Living Fair • Nye Ranch • Oco Time • Patrona • Princess Seafood • Saucy • Sparetime Supply • Steep Coffee & Teas • Stone & Embers • Table128 • Tamar Distillery Inc. • Tequio Farm • Thanksgiving Coffee • The Madrones • Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op • Visit Mendocino County • Weathertop Nursery • Westside Renaissance Market • Willits Center for the Arts • Willits Weekly
|
|
Fun Food Events Coming Up
|
|
June 2nd: Mendocino Film Festival
Commanding the Table
Opening Night Celebration at the Hill House Inn on Friday, June 2, takes its inspiration from the film Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table. This kick-off features inspired cuisine from the best chefs of Mendocino County, cocktails crafted by local mixologists, iconic beers from North Coast Brewing Company, and a selection of wines.
This members only party is a New-Orleans inspired courtyard with live New Orleans Jazz and some of our famous mobile gourmet kitchens, including The Flying Saucy, a wood-fired traveling pizza oven (pictured below). Tsunami Nachos will be there as well as the ultra-hip retro Tow-Ster Trailer Portable Bar, where you can enjoy sipping locally distilled Low Gap Whisky. Mingle with celebrities and special guests from the film world as we raise a glass to the Mendocino Film Festival. Mendocinofilmfestival.org
* * *
|
|
June 13th: Good Farm Fund Dinner
The Good Farm Fund is a community organization that provides direct support to Mendocino County farmers through grants and assistance. This dinner is the principal fundraiser for GFF and the organizers pull out all the stops. Over twenty chefs are paired with local farms to create small bites to delight the senses. This feast is held at the stunning Yokayo Ranch in Ukiah. It's a midsummer event that is not to be missed. Buy your tickets now—past dinners have sold out.
* * *
|
|
June 18: Father’s Day Chicken Dinner Barbecue
12:00 – 4:00pm ... Celebrate Dad this Father's Day at Comptche's biggest event of the year: the Comptche Volunteer Fire Department's Chicken Dinner BBQ! Your whole family will love the madrone-grilled chicken, tasty fixins, cool refreshments and delicious homemade pie, while enjoying live entertainment performed by great local musicians! There will be fun kids' activities, an open-air country store and a bountiful raffle with scores of valuable prizes including the award-winning Comptche Quilt!
Comptche Firehouse Park, Flynn Creek Road (1/2 mile south of the Comptche Store). Get your tickets at the door.
|
|
|
|
|
