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The First-Ever Silicon Valley Beer Week Arrives This Summer
Summertime will have traction as a desirable time of year in ads and commercials for forever, and with good reason. It's portrayed as a fairly relaxing time when we're able to lounge about in shorts and tanks and do some serious lolling.
The Golden State's Creamiest, Cheesiest Festival
There is no bad cheese. Of course, there can be bad cheese if it gets old or gets run over and squished by a truck (that's not what we're saying). But most cheese, even the most basic and rubbery of types, can be redeemable.
The Sacramento Bacon Fest Returns
What can be said about a certain strip of salty meatiness that hasn't at this point? Bacon now regularly appears inside foods that had nothing to do with bacon even a half decade ago: Gumballs, lollipops, popcorn, chocolates. It wraps other meats, like hot dogs, and is served next to sauces for dipping, a phenomenon that's relatively new in the baconverse. Long-running blogs sing its salt-crusted praises and memes spring up devoted to its red-and-white-stripe-i-ness.
Finding Old Hollywood Along the Coast in Monterey
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It's Mushroom Mania in Monterey
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Get Your Sweet Tooth On at the California Candy Festival This Weekend
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Need a Labor Day Weekend Plan? Check Out the Sausalito Arts Festival
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Take a Trip to the Taste of Petaluma
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How Many Olives Can You Eat?
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Hello, Giant Pacific Octopus
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