Kathleen Hill: Class with John McReynolds, golfing for hemophilia and belly up to the Starling Bar...

Over the Edge?with John McReynolds

Culinary Director John McReynolds will give a class at Stone Edge Farm’s Edge dining room on Saturday, Aug. 6 on summer foods with international flavors. Enjoy lunch together paired with Stone Edge wines after the class. Learn to make toasted Padron peppers, heirloom tomato, nectarine and burrata salad, roasted corn fritters, smoked fingerling potatoes, grilled T-bone steak with chimichurri sauce, and Eaton’s Mess with local strawberries and raspberries. $95 wine club members, $125 non-members. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. RSVP to kim@stoneedgefarm.com.

Vines, Hops and Golf

The Hemophilia Foundation of Northern California hosts its 12th annual fundraiser on Sunday, Aug. 7 and Monday, Aug. 8 to send kids with threatening bleeding disorders to summer’s “Camp Hemotion.”

The Vines, Hops and Golf Tournament will be at Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa and Sonoma Golf Club. In the past the Hemophilia Foundation has raised $1.5 million to support its summer camps, a family camp, emergency assistance, research, information on medical care, education and outreach and advocacy to families in 47 Northern California counties.

The Sunday Vines 7 Hops event will feature regional wines, handcrafted beers and appetizers, and a wine and cheese pairing class supported by Sonoma Wine Shop and its La Bodega. Vines & Hops only $150, golf tickets $500. For tickets call 510-658-3324 or go to hemofoundation.org.

Join Chateau Sonoma’s trip to France

Sarah Anderson has two rooms available in her annual Chateau Sonoma culinary excursion to Chateau Dumas in southwestern France, a trip guaranteed to be rich in flea markets, farmers markets, cooking classes, riverside picnic lunches, brocantes, vineyard and winery tours, a visit to a hat factory in France’s hat capitol of Caussade. (I am lucky to have a photo of me wearing a hat I bought with the woman who made it), historic tour of St. Antonin, the Toulouse Lautrec Museum in Albi, and dinner at Chef Charlotte’s beautiful country barn Sept. 3 to 10. $3,800 per person. Reserve at 935-8553 or chateausonoma.com.

Larson Family Winery update

Larson Family Winery has a fun and sunny new wine club bar, shaded with umbrellas and structures, on their back “pad” where so many youth-oriented fundraisers take place.

Karly Burningham and Melissa Ivan will be pouring Larson Family Wines on the weekends at the new bar, and Karly also will work in the office reaching out and helping wine club members. 23355 Millerick Road. Larsonfamilywinery.com.

Starling Bar’s ?new snack menu

Fred Johnson’s blue Starling Bar replacing the old Blue Moon Saloon at the corner of West Spain Street and Highway 12 is evolving as an interesting meeting place of cultures. Sonoma’s young parents are mixing with some of the motorcycle patrons who are still hanging out playing pool.

Johnson’s new snack menu recently included cup o’ peanuts, a jar of berries, jar of house-pickled veggies, Rodeo Jax bacon caramel corn, Jackson’s sweet potato chips, and spicy pimento cheese and tortilla chips, all ranging from $2 to $8.

Urban Refind

Check out Leszlie Boutell’s new Urban Refind. Watch for her balloons in front of a two-space parking lot and little gray building.

Leszlie and her husband, Simon Purshouse, own Good Riddance Hauling & Salvage, a surprisingly elegant company that will pick up almost anything in the North Bay and dispose of it, at the dump or otherwise. They recycle, donate, or reuse about 60 percent of what they collect. In fact, some of the hauling business leftovers have become featured pieces at Urban Refind.

I hustled out there on Day Three of her new business, and immediately bought three food and soda pop signs for my Kathleen Hill Culinary Collection. Currently, they are featuring a rustic handmade bar or counter. Open Thursday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 17503 Sonoma Highway, Boyes Hot Springs. 343-7413. Urbanrefind.com.

Walt Wines ?starts trivia night

Kathryn Walt Hall’s Walt Wines tasting room on First Street West has started holding Monday night trivia nights in its tasting room’s backyard. Teams will consist of four to six players who will compete for bragging rights and prizes, and apparently drink a glass or so of Walt wines. Kathryn Walt Hall was appointed Ambassador to Austria by President Bill Clinton.

According to Lisa Covey of Hall Wines, last Monday’s fun was enjoyed by many. Walt Wines are available by the glass, but the Fig Rig food truck will not be there despite Walt’s initial press release.

Teams may have more than six players but they won’t be eligible for prizes of wine and gift cards for first, second and third place teams. $5 to play, plus wine charges. 380 First St. W., Sonoma. 933-4440. Waltwines.com.

Murphy’s Irish Pub continues Trivia Nights every Wednesday.

McEvoy Ranch update

Sonoma resident Deborah Rogers is olive oil production manager at organic McEvoy Ranch, which just promoted Samantha Dorsey to general manager. Dorsey started out as an assistant gardener 15 years ago, became vineyard manager, and since 2013 has overseen all of McEvoy’s orchards and vineyards as farming manager.

Deborah Rogers joined the team at McEvoy Ranch in 2014 and oversees the production of McEvoy Ranch’s acclaimed line of olive oils. She serves on the UC Davis Olive Center Taste Panel, and Rogers regularly serves as a judge for competitions around the world. She co-founded the Olive Press in Sonoma in 1995, just four years after Nan Tucker McEvoy established McEvoy Ranch.

McEvoy Ranch, on the border between Sonoma and Marin counties, is one of the largest estate-grown organic olive oil producers in the United States.

Their extra virgin olive oil just won three gold medals for its 2016 Traditional Blend at this year’s New York and Los Angeles International competitions and at the California State Fair.

The Paws that refreshes

Quick – get your last minute tickets for “Pause For A Cause,” Pets Lifeline’s most fun fundraiser of the year on Saturday, July 30 at Vintage Kennel Club, a great venue among animals to celebrate animals.

The event itself is a fabulous dinner enjoyed in horse stalls. Occasionally the horse who normally lives in the stall where you are dining might just reach in from the outside and nibble your salad. It’s that good.

Vintage Kennel owners Mike Weiss and Brian Ness always donate their elegant kennel for the event. Their Vintage Kennel family includes dogs, draft horses, Friesians, a pony, miniature donkeys, a Dromedary camel or two, goats, chickens, ducks and livestock guardian dogs.

Stellar Catering (Ari Wesisswasser and Bruce Riezenman) will cook and serve a “family-style” dinner preceded by passed hors d’ouevres such as yellow watermelon gazpacho shots, beef skewers with Tamarind chilies and heirloom tomato tartlets with ricotta salata.

Guests will sit down to grilled zucchini ribbons with radish an shaved Parmesan, golden beets with Blood orange oil, grilled layered eggplant and Za’atar spiced flatbread.

And the super local dessert will be Watmaugh strawberry cobbler in cast iron skillets, and housemade (Glen Ellen Star) individual ice creams. $150. 5:30 to 10 p.m. 22071 Bonness Road. Tickets quickly at 996-4577 or petslifeline.org.