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Café Rouge and Girl and the Fig Top Charcuterie Finalists in Good Food Awards

Photo: Courtesy of Cafe Rouge

Finalists for the Good Food Awards were announced last week, and among the finalists in the category of charcuterie are Berkeley’s Café Rouge (for their smoked beef tongue) and Sonoma’s Girl and the Fig (for their coppa and their pimenton salami). 2011 is the first year the Good Food Awards will be presented, and it’s an event with a Slow Food Nation pedigree celebrating artisanal food products from across the country. The awards happen January 14 at a ceremony hosted by a duo of gastronomical grande dames, Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters. But tasting opportunities for all the products, in the categories of beer, charcuterie, cheese, coffee, chocolate, pickles, and preserves will extend into February.

The first tasting event will be at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ market on January 15, which is likely to be monstrously crowded. But other events throughout the city will be happening during Good Food Month, between January 16 and February 20, with two categories featured each week, and beer getting a full week during the now annual S.F. Beer Week.

See all the local finalists below.

Beer
Bison Brewing - Organic Gingerbread Ale (Berkeley, CA)
Drake’s Brewing - Denoggenizer (San Leandro, CA)
Marin Brewing Company - ESChi (Larkspur, CA)
North Coast Brewing Company - Pranqster (Ft. Bragg, CA)
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing - Porter (Santa Cruz, CA)
Thirsty Bear Brewing Co. - Polar Bear Pils (San Francisco, CA)

Charcuterie
Café Rouge - Smoked Beef Tongue (Berkeley, CA)
The Girl and the Fig - Coppa (Sonoma, CA)
The Girl and the Fig - Pimenton Salami (Sonoma, CA)

Cheese
Cowgirl Creamery - Red Hawk (Petaluma, CA)
Fiscalini - Bandage Wrapped Cheddar (Modesto, CA)
Redwood Hill Farms - Cameo (Sebastopol, CA)
Point Reyes Farmstead - Point Reyes Farmstead Blue (Point Reyes, CA)

Chocolate

Charles Chocolates - Salty Sweet Cashew Bar (San Francisco, CA)
Jade Chocolates - Dragon’s Breath (San Francisco, CA)
Poco Dolce - Aztec Chile Tiles (San Francisco, CA)
Vice Chocolates - Milk + Black Lava Sea Salt (Oakland, CA)

Coffee
Blue Bottle Coffee - Kemgin (San Francisco, CA)
Ecco Caffe - Kenya Kiunyu (Santa Rosa, CA)
Ritual Coffee Roasters - Kenya Kiandu (San Francisco, CA)

Pickles

Ceres Community Project - Arame & Ginger Sauerkraut Salad (Sebastopol, CA)
Cultured - Spicy Oregano Purple Carrots (Berkeley, CA)
Sonoma Valley Sharecropper - Sweet & Sour Squash (Sonoma, CA)
We Love Jam - Bread and Butter Pickles (Santa Clara, CA)

Preserves

Feel Good Foods - Dansom Plum (Santa Cruz, CA)
Happy Girl Kitchen - Apricot Chili Jam (Monterey, CA)
Middleton Farm - Raspberry (Healdsburg, CA)

Good Food Award Finalists [Official List]
Earlier: Ruth Reichl to Judge, Alice to Host Good Food Awards in January [Grub Street]

Café Rouge and Girl and the Fig Top Charcuterie Finalists in Good Food