These dulce de leche “mountains” are named after real Andean peaks.

The duo will be in the Bay Area for a food show-dance party mash-up.

Today’s Halloween foci are kids and candy. But that doesn’t prevent adults from indulging in both the costumes and the calories. Adult Halloween parties likely motivated Ogden Nash when he opined, “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”

This year’s three-day food extravaganza showcases more than 70 sustainably sourced menus and more than 40 craft beers, wines, and cocktails.

Bay Area Co-Roasters four production roasters, a cupping room, and two processing spaces in which coffee can be weighed, bagged, and sealed, and its cafe opened in July.

September shows a split personality. The month blesses us with most of summer’s bounty, yet holds equal promise of fall comfort food. Typically regarded as the harvest month, September also is time to select seasonal cheeses, especially those made from goat’s milk. Cheese isn’t seasonal the same way that stone fruit or table grapes are. And globally, cheese isn’t seasonal at all. Seasonality applies in the realm of small-scale cheese-makers, like Pacific Cheese in Hayward, or Belfiore Cheese in Berkeley.

Beer, wine, sourdough, and yogurt are Bay Area household words; tempeh, natto, koumiss, and filmjölk, not so much so. Yet all share a commonality essential to the beverages we drink, the foods we eat, and the digestive process within our gut: fermentation.

June’s the keystone month for summer romance, so we borrow a line from Romeo and Juliet, “Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” Garlic is oft referred to as the stinking rose, which prompted the two-outlet California restaurant chain of the same name. Garlic comes from a family of pungent aromatic vegetables whose relatives include onions, leeks, scallions, chives, and shallots.

A brother-and-sister led team plans some minor changes but believe in maintaining the storied ice creamery’s longtime charm.

Heliforaging, poi biscuits, and Organic Shave Ice are Hawaii’s hottest culinary trends.