Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Food

We have some great workers here at Rancho Gordo from Napa Valley Support Services. They help with the bean weighing, bagging and general production. The program also has an arts project, the Brown Street Gallery, and for our opening a few weeks ago, they produced this amazing portrait of Our Lady...

Did you notice? We're open here at Rancho Gordo Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 11am to 5:30 p.m. and on Christmas Eve we'll close at 3pm. We will be closed on Saturday, the 26th. On Tuesday and Thursday, Elizabeth and I will be at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Markets from 10am to 2pm, ...

I was going to post about the tradition of making a posole for Christmas Eve. For me, it's easy, delicious and a nice contrast to the inevitably debauched  feast that awaits us the next day. An article on Serious Eats sidetracked me. The posole recipe looks great but the ingredient list co...

One of my favorite books is Frank X. Tolbert's A Bowl of Red,a tribute to Texas chili. He of course insists on bean-less chili. Iunderstand but I still like a few mixed in. It doesn't need to be thatthick mass like the mess you find in cans. But to each his own.  Despitehis chili stanc...

We're busy packing orders, eating Butter Cream donuts and chugging coffee. The place is a scene. But for a few moments, before the Open House on Saturday, Rancho Gordo looked great and I wanted to show you some photos.

This lovely piece is by an exciting new artist, 8-year old Nico Sando. His preferred medium is beans on cardboard but with his latest work, he's incorporated crimson popcorn, surely a comment on the Mexican saying, Sin Maiz no hay pais (or Without corn there is no country). Or could it be a ...

We're swamped with your holiday orders so blogging has taken a back seat to day to day business, but I wanted to show you what's coming in sometime over the next few days. It's an indigenous Mexican oregano called Rat's Ear. Unlike the more common Mexican oregano, it doesn&#0...

You probably know, but I wanted to remind you that we have Good Mother Stallards back. With maybe the exception of Runner Cannellini, their absence from our stock has been the most painful. They're great for so many reasons but I think it's their "pot likker" that gets me the...

I was recently hired to do the photography for an exciting new book in the Timber pipeline—a book on heirloom beans by the incomparable Steve Sando. Many of you may have already heard of Steve Sando and his company Rancho Gordo. ...