February 25, 2014 – Please join us on Wed. March 5 for delectable oysters and other appetizers, wine and the new issue of Edible Monterey Bay!
Help us celebrate the winners of our 2014 Local Heroes awards, which will be announced in the new issue, and come experience the hospitality of our amazing host, Monterey’s new Wharf Marketplace.
The event will run from 5 to 7pm and will feature free appetizers ranging from the Wharf’s oysters and small bites from its great regular menu to special treats being cooked up just for this event.
Stewart & Jasper Orchards will be on hand to freshly roast its Central Valley-Grown almonds while Baker’s Bacon’s Tony Baker and Cowboy Sausages’ Butch Francis will both be there to prepare their meaty delights. Green Gold Farms will offer some of its artisanal pickles and more participants are expected to be announced soon!
Finally, to toast the Local Heroes winners and the exciting stories contained in the new issue, Antle Wines will offer its Pinnacalitos de Chalone estate varietals at just $5 per glass.
Guests who RSVP to EMB at info@ediblemontereybay.com will be entered for a chance to win special prizes, but RSVPs are not necessary to attend and all are welcome.
The Wharf Marketplace is located at 290 Figueroa at the foot of Wharf #2. For more information about this event, email info@ediblemontereybay.com or call 831.238.2117.
We hope to see you there!
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
