Chef Dan Kedan on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: December 10, 2023)

dk farm 385x385This Sunday evening host Clark Wolf welcomes Chef and Culinary Instructor Dan Kedan who, with his wife Marianna Gardenhire, owned the beloved Backyard restaurant in Forestville for nearly a decade. These days he is a tenured professor at the Culinary Institute of America at the St. Helena Greystone property and working on local and national programs on sustainability and true farm to table practices. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Savoring Sonoma

November 08, 2025

Dr. Marion Nestle on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

This weekend host Clark Wolf spends the hour with Dr. Marion Nestle in her Manhattan apartment near New York University. They talk about her new book What To Eat Now, the MAHA movement, Ultra Processed Foods and her extraordinary career.
October 25, 2025

Daisy Damskey on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Daisy Damskey, née Frances Dale George, shares her country and worldwide crisscross of a life and career that brought her to Geyserville in partnership with her award winning wine growing and making husband Kerry Damskey and their family wine label Palmeri Wines. Her education and work in early…
October 11, 2025

Margo True on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Margo True may have started what continues to be a remarkable career at the age of seven when she became enamored with a glossy magazine called Gourmet. Years later she worked at that very title and did significant stints at Savour, our beloved Sunset Magazine and, remarkably, Patagonia, the…
September 27, 2025

Marion Nestle and remembering Marian Burros on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

In this episode of Savoring Sonoma host Clark Wolf speaks with two legendary food pros. Marion Nestle, among the world’s foremost microbiologists and nutritional experts, talks about the current status of food and safety policies, the MAHA movement and previews her upcoming book What To Eat Now,…
September 13, 2025

Jennifer Graue on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Jennifer Graue is our guest on this episode of Savoring Sonoma: The Hour. Her tenure as a food writer at the Press Democrat has produced a meaningful collection of articles about people and their connection to food, farming, family and our community. Now as Editor in Chief of Sonoma Magazine, and…
May 24, 2025

Jennifer Bice on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

The contributions of Jennifer Bice to the 20th and 21st Century advancement of artisan foods, most specifically goat’s milk dairy products, cannot be…
May 10, 2025

Kiano Moju on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Kiano Moju is the author of a beautiful cookbook called AfriCali: Recipes from my Jikoni. Building on her family history from Kenya and Nigeria, as…
Jan 12, 2025

Evan Wiig on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Who better to speak with about all things small and family farming than Evan Wiig, Director of Membership and Communications for CAFF? That stands…
Aug 11, 2024

Sarah Silva on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Recently named Climate Smart Farmer of The Year by CAFF (Community Alliance of Family Farms), Sarah Silva and her mother Carol steward the 85 acre…
Jul 28, 2024

Dan Imhoff on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

Dan Imhoff is a writer, author, publisher, activist and musician. Splitting his time between Sonoma County and Spain, he shares deeply informed…

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