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Leena Eats: Pedrick’s Produce in Dixon, CA

Leena Eats: Pedricks Produce in Dixon, CA

The outside of Pedrick's Produce from the highway.

When you drive through Northern California and you are not super close to San Francisco, you constantly see signs like the ones above, especially as spring and summer start. Tons of locally grown, delicious produce at dirt cheap prices. When you see signs like this:

Leena Eats: Pedricks Produce in Dixon, CA

Mmm, cheap and local strawberries!

it is difficult not to pull a 360 on the highway, taking out a few mini vans in your quest for some delicious, cheap strawberries. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying it happens, people.

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Leena Eats (and Drinks): Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival (Photo Essay)

Leena Eats (and Drinks): Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival (Photo Essay)

The Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival: a WHOLE lotta goodness under one tent...like Tyler Florence!

Not too long ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival. This happened for two reasons: because the kind folks at Foodbuzz rock (and needed some cheap, on the ground bloggers to the cover the event) and because apparently I WILL work for food and (a few food celeb photos). But with people like hottie meatloaf master Tyler Florence and one of my favorite all-time Top Chef contestants ever, Carla Hall, could you really blame me for being weak?

I sure as hell can’t. More food porn and food celeb photos after the jump, because photos are the ONLY way to describe the orgy of food, wine and celebrities that was Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival.

Get ready. And pack some Tums.

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Gastro Friday: Leena’s NoCal Food Road Trip!

Gastro Friday: Leenas NoCal Food Road Trip!

Starting the day off at Cowgirl Creamery cheese shop...how could this be a bad thing?

Ah, how I missed living close to wine country and other wonderful food cultures! Although Northern California is a bit more pretentious than my beloved South Australia, it’s still a damn great place to explore food.

For this road trip, we made stops at a popular cheese shop and a local winery to gather goodies for our oyster barbecue at Hog Island Oysters in Marshall (just north of SF) on Tomales Bay.

(Okay, TECHNICALLY, we went to the cheese shop, did the bbq and then went to the winery, but if I had to do the day over again, I would definitely squeeze the winery in BEFORE the barbecue, so we could have wine with our oysters. Trust me. It’s just better this way.)

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