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coffee from Sonoma's well-loved roastery. The chocolatier blends Domori chocolate from Italy with carefully sourced ingredients, such as pistachios from Sicily, sea salt from France, hazelnuts from Washington and fresh fruit from small California farms. A rotating menu of seasonally inspired flavors rounds out Blue's offerings. FINESSE, THE STORE Star chef Thomas Keller shares his toolbox. The bucolic wine-country town of Yountville is home base for chef Thomas Keller's empire and the locale of The French Laundry (and the kitchen garden across the street). Since August, culinary collectors have been discovering his new and highly curated Finesse, The Store, offering hand-selected merchandise favored by Keller and his restaurants. A brilliant selection of luxurious tools includes a limitededition MAC knife set, Messermeister stainless steel culinary tweezer, Matfer bowl scraper, Kuhn Rikon French wire whisk and Kuhn Rikon Swiss peeler. Patrons will also find a few essential pantry picks, such as Manni Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil (created in Tuscany using Armando Manni's "live oil" method), Tasting of Salts (with French, English, Japanese and Hawaiian representation), and the Cup 4 Cup gluten-free flour and mixes, which were developed in the Laundry kitchen. Fans of Keller can also buy signed cookbooks, copies of his Finesse magazine and branded gifts and tabletop items. KOZLOWSKI FARMS Family farm and store expands in Sonoma. After five decades in Sonoma, Specialty Food Association member Kozlowski Farms finally decided it was time to move out of the rustic building in which it had been selling jams, jellies, condiments, pies and more since 1949. The new barn, near the company's organic farm and apple orchard in the Russian River Valley, combines a spacious retail space for customers up front and expanded production facilities in the back. The heart of Kozlowski Farms' product line has always been its fruit, made into small-batch, open-kettle jams, jellies, preserves, marmalades, butters, chutneys, fruit spreads, syrups and fresh pies. Over the years, however, the operation has expanded to include an array of great California tastes for the table, including salad dressings, vinegars, mustards, oils, pasta sauce, barbecue sauce and bruschetta toppings, available individually or arranged in popular gift baskets. And since 2001, the family has been making wine from pinot noir grapes planted on the property. owns three-star Local's Corner seafood restaurant and Local Mission Eatery) has now expanded its offerings to groceries. The Market brings the local and handmade concept from the farm to the neighborhood grocery by featuring only seasonal foods crafted by executive chef/co-owner Jake Des Voignes and his staff. Shop the store to find hand-printed labels (and storytelling signage) on everything: extruded pastas, pickles, jams and condiments, dried fruits, breads and pastries, and cured and smoked meats and fish. The market has a farmstand, cheeses and dairy, and bulk ingredients as well. It's a market that takes itself seriously as a resource for food lovers and home cooks to have access to food at its peak. The Local Mission team has even pioneered a custom in-store iPad app for quicker checkouts and a full webstore for pickup and delivery. Next year, look for their new (and nearby) Local Cellar store featuring locally crafted wines, beers, spirits and mixers. MARIN COUNTRY MART A modern outdoor marketplace. Take the Golden Gate Ferry from San Francisco's Ferry Building for a food-centric day trip to the new Marin Country Mart in Larkspur, a stunning California-meets-the-Hamptons destination for food (and fashion). Here are some of the highlights: Belcampo Meat Co. This butcher shop and eatery was opened by locavore leader Anya Fernald in November. Shoppers can buy (and eat on-site) grass-fed meats (cow, goat, chicken and pig) all sourced from Belcampo's organic farm and processed in its facility in Northern California's Shasta Valley. Master butchers process whole animals for prime cuts, Italian and bratwurst, merguez, pate, bologna and bacon. Essential pantry ingredients on offer include top sellers from Emmy's Pickles and Jams, Rancho Gordo beans, raw honey from Buddha Belly, Red Boat Fish Sauce, Pacific Sun olive oils, and LOCAL MISSION MARKET House-made groceries for locavores. The increasingly popular 24th Street in the Mission has become a hotbed of new food enterprises, and the Local Mission team (which WINTER 2014 121