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Ask any serious cook if they have a favorite kitchen tool or gadget and you’re liable to hear plenty of strongly held opinions about the best silicone-tipped tongs, the perfect sauté pan or the ideal immersion blender. For fun, we asked three local chefs about the one kitchen item they just can’t live without. Here’s what they had to say about the indispensable implements that make working in a hectic restaurant kitchen easier. Deneb Williams Executive chef, Allora For Deneb Williams, who...

What's your go-to kitchen gadget or tool? We asked some of the region's top chefs and see what they say is their go-to gadget or tool.

St. John’s Program for Real Change’s popular guest-chef dinners will return in July after more than a yearlong hiatus caused by the pandemic.

Valentines Day push comes as welcome business surge for pandemic-weary restaurants More than a day to share the love with friends and family, those who dined out shared the love with local restaurants too. Author: Barbara Bingley (ABC 10) Published: 7:50 PM PST February 14, 2021 Updated: 7:50 PM PST February 14, 2021 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Deneb Williams, the executive chef and CEO of Allora restaurant in East Sacramento, said Valentines Day was a...

Sacramento Magazine your username your email your username your email Jose Velarde Jose Velarde isn’t one to sit on an idea for long. Last July, he hatched an ambitious (some would say impractical) plan to start a truffle importing business from his home in Olivehurst, just north of Sacramento. The enterprise was up and running within days. “I’m such a spontaneous person. I’ve always been like that,” he says. “This time it actually helped me.” The way Velarde tells the s...

Sacramento Magazine your username your email your username your email Before plunking down any funds for fish, Deneb Williams plays detective.      Is it fresh? (How fresh?) In which ocean was it caught? Day boat or giant vessel? Hook-and-line or net? And that’s just a start.      Playing seafood sleuth is nothing new for Williams, executive chef of The Firehouse Restaurant in Old Sac. He’s been doing it, he says, for some 20 years. But thanks to the growing interest in sustainable...