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High Hopes for the new year

We ask Wine Country luminaries: What do you hope to accomplish in 2011?

 

Clark Wolf, restaurant consultant, writer, hospitality expert

Clark Wolf is a food and restaurant consultant, writer, and well-known authority on the culture of hospitality. He lives in two wildly disparate places — New York City and remote Guernewood Heights in Guerneville along the Russian River. He also is host of “The Food Show With Clark Wolf” on channel TV50. This bi-coastal bon vivant is passionate about farming, and he says one of his goals for 2011 is to “increase the value and real understanding of the treasures of this county.”

“This is an extraordinary place, and even people in it don't quite get that,” he said. “It's like that kid in high school who was really good-looking but didn't know it and was nice to everybody.”

He hopes to foster that appreciation by telling rich stories of food and farming, for after all, he says, farming is the source of all sustenance. And he wants to show what happens to the harvest, focusing on the region's cheesemakers and canners and olive curers.

“One of the greatest things we have going is the potential for being a hotbed of education,” says Wolf, who intends to continue bringing people to the North Coast to get them close to the land, to walk it and taste it and touch it.

One concrete goal this year is to organize and launch a new county-wide Late Harvest Festival in November, when the vines are electric with color and the other festivals have ended for the year. It would include small doings at markets and restaurants as well as signature events.

“If that nice valley to the east can celebrate mustard for two months,” he said, “we can muster a month of celebrating a real harvest at peak time.”

As for his personal goal, he says he intends to “be busy and happy about it.”

“The true mark of success is doing work you love with people you respect,” he said. “It's so tough, and it's what I wish for everyone.”

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"I want to talk about the history of our area," says Clark Wolf. "There will be no script. This is going to be conversations and storytelling, mine and other people's."

Wolf—a Bohemian contributor who also regularly shows up on sfgate.com's "Inside Scoop" pages; a restaurant consultant who helped to engineer the revitalization of Las Vegas as a food destination; who shows up as a celeb mention in the beloved Silver Palate cookbook series; and who is the author of his own 2008 book, American Cheeses—is about to add another line to his résumé: food-show host.

His new half-hour show, It's Food: From the Heart of Sonoma Farm Country with Clark Wolf, debuts in November on KFTY TV-50, reaching some 1.7 million North Bay homes. There's a significant chance it will be picked up by the 30-plus affiliate stations across the nation and that Wolf will one day soon be as ubiquitous as that guy who does garlic (and dives and diners).

Wolf, who regularly emcees at the Taste of Sonoma and other area events, is a quick study with a ready wit and a nearly unfathomable knowledge set about foodstuffs of all sorts. Chatty and voluble, he would seem to be a perfect fit for a swift three-segment program that talks.

"The whole idea is not to just show things," Wolf explains. "It's kind of a reality food show but with no competitions. Nobody loses; everybody wins. I really hope that there will be a conversation with people over some of their favorite foods.

"We begin taping in and around Sonoma on Oct. 4," Wolf continues happily, "so if you see me, say 'Hi.'"