Woodland’s Juan Barajas featured in travel blog
Juan Barajas, Savory Cafe owner, was featured in a blog post by Visit California that highlights his love for Woodland’s “delicious food, bucolic farmland and tight-knit community.”
In the post, Barajas explains how his mother’s affinity for cooking everything from scratch and his father’s career in the crop-dusting business growing up meant he always had high-quality food around him.
“‘In this area, you can’t turn around without bumping into fields of food with a variety of different products,’” Barajas said in the interview. “‘Our wish is to have a restaurant that has a direct connection with the individuals growing our food, and also to educate people about what we use in our kitchen.’”
To read more, go to visitcalifornia.com/experience/juan-barajas-california-local.
UC Davis launched a new multimedia marketing campaign featuring digital ads and videos that showcase the kinds of research and advocacy that are “propelling the university to new heights.”
The campaign launched Monday and is called “Outgrow the Expected,” according to Cody Kitaura, news and media relations specialist for UC Davis.
“Digital ads will invite the viewer to imagine solutions and innovations like ‘conducting a pandemic response like a symphony’ and rescuing birds from the recent oil spill in Orange County,” Kitaura stated in his article.
Kitaura noted that the campaign will include airport security bins so that airline passengers, including lawmakers and other decision-makers, will see the university’s name when they put their phones and keys into bins for screening at Washington National.
“Our days of being ‘the best-kept secret in higher education’ are done,” Jasmin Francis-Bush, director of brand management and marketing in the Office of Strategic Communications, said. “More than ever, the world needs big ideas and long-term vision. The good that we do is enhanced when decision-makers know who we are and what we accomplish.”
To read more, visit ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davisdebuts-nationwide-outgrow-expected-campaign. Also in UC Davis news, the university recently released a video showcasing its Coffee Center, which the university claims is the world’s first academic research center focused on coffee.
The center aims to do for coffee what UC Davis has done for beer and wine, according to the video description.
The goal of the center is to train the next generation of coffee professionals while improving the entire industry and making it more sustainable through research, teaching and mentorship.
“The most exciting potential for coffee research, I think, is to help small stakes farmers improve their sustainability while increasing their economic benefit,” Tonya Kuhl, co-director for the coffee center, said in the video. “We really help that we can reach out to folks and bridge these gaps and make sure that everyone benefits from improving coffee production.”
The video — titled “Inside the New UC Davis Coffee Center” — is available on UCDavisEngineering’s YouTube channel. Two notable Yolo County community members, Jenny Tan and Jeneba Lahai, were named 40 under 40 honorees by the Sacramento Business Journal.
Lahai is the executive director of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance. She was promoted to the top position there in June after seven years with the organization, according to the article. She received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from California State University, Sacramento.
Tan currently helps advocate for California’s 58 counties but previously worked as the public information officer for Yolo County.
To read more about Tan and Lahai, the full stories and interviews are available at bizjournals. com/sacramento. The Great Carrot Cake Bake Off will be held Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 15 Main St. in Winters.
Three local bakers will present their carrot cakes from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available for $10 at exploretock.com/berryessagapwinery and give people a chance to taste all three cakes along with a Malbec or Chardonnay, according to the event description.
Berryessa Gap Vineyards is hosting the event and a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Winters Community Thanksgiving Meal.
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