Sue Conley and Peggy Smith have done more than almost anyone to support and develop artisan cheese and other fine food making in what we, North of the Golden Gate, call the Pastoral Region, and across America. 
Photo by: Lilia Ahner This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour, host Clark Wolf speaks with organic farmer, mother, writer, County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins. They talk about farming, food, family, land management, smart visitor programs and how she came to much of her world focus through her love of the ocean and her desire to see life thrive. 
This week on Savoring Sonoma, host Clark Wolf speaks with Kyle Connaughton who, with his wife Katina, is arguably at the forefront and very top of the world of food and farming in the County, the region and the world. They speak of their trajectory from when, at 23, he and Katina married on the Coast in Mendocino, after which they traveled South, passing through Healdsburg and deciding then and there what their future would be. A decade in Japan, time in England and five years planting a farm and building a restaurant and Inn in Healdsburg, they then opened their acclaimed spot. Now growing into other projects, they certainly show how a richness of life can have a Single Thread.
This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour, host Clark Wolf has a heartfelt, thoughtful conversation with Duskie Estes, a local chef with a national reputation. She’s gone from vegetarian to Queen of Pork. From restaurants, food trucks, catering, and network TV, to becoming a gleaning guru for the non-profit Farm to Pantry, working with some 500 volunteers and reaching countless families while saving precious foods.
For chef, author, columnist, and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi, food is about more than what we eat. It is about joy, pleasure, and surprise. It is about a sense of place and home. It is about commonality, an act which brings people together.
Ottolenghi’s award winning cookbooks have proven wildly influential, with The New York Times noting they are widely imitated for their plain-spoken instructions and enticing photographs (overseen by Ottolenghi himself).
They have been praised by Nigel Slater, David Lebovitz, Deborah Madison, Food & Wine, and the Wall Street Journal.
Accomplished Sonoma County Chef Dan Kedan is a lecturing instructor at the Culinary Institute of America in Saint Helena, Napa County. He was Owner/Executive Chef at Backyard in Forestville, where he earned the Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand award every year between 2012 and 2019.
PROGAM NOTE: Yotam Ottolenghi came to the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on May 6th. His appearance was set to be moderated by Dan Kedan. Unfortunately, Kedan tested positive for COVID the morning of the show and asked Clark Wolf to step in. These conversations were recorded the week before Ottolenghi’s appearance at the LBC.
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