Rockridge Market Hall

One bite-per-minute for 23 hours...61 tastes per hour...1,400 samples over three days. Think you could handle this?   Luckily, our Product Manager Linda Sikorski was up for the challenge. She just returned home from a marathon tasting of 1,400 new products in New York City for the 2009 Annual Sofi Awards.

We've just received two gorgeous legs of Jamon Iberico at our Fourth Street store in Berkeley (click here for a map)

by Marissa Baumann

Last September I moved to the Bay Area after spending four years living in Japan.  When people learn this about me the logical questions follow...Do you speak Japanese? Do you love Japanese food?  What things do you miss the most? And my answers are always the same...Speak? Yes, a bit. Food? Yes.  What do I miss the most? My friends.  The baths.  And yuzu...

It's been a few years now that beekeepers, honey producers and scientists have noticed a rapid decline in the population of bees.  The case of the vanishing bees, dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, has effected the business of honey making and more drastically, food production in general. Fully one-third of the world's food crops depend on bee pollination.

Well it seems that scientists may finally have some answers.