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Local Food Adventures • May 17, 2020

Food Tour Fun at Home from Local Food Adventures

Bring a taste of Oakland and the East Bay into your kitchen & a chance to win a Local Love Gift Box

amazing local food

We can’t come over to your place to cook you some classic Oakland dishes, so we’ve done the next best thing: we’ve make an Oakland and East Bay Cookbook! We love talking about food, and we especially love championing the incredible local restaurants and dishes around Oakland. We got together with some of our amazing  East bay Food Tour  partners to create the quintessential Oakland and East Bay cookbook with some amazing food from our award-winning tours. This is a book of recipes created by some of the best chefs and food experts in all of the East Bay Area.

We want to see the food you create!

Local food brings us together. And talking about local food brings us together even more! We would love to give anyone stuck at home something fun to do – with the chance to win a great foodie prize: a  Local Love Gift Box ! All you have to do is try one of the recipes from our cookbook and to take a picture of your wonderful food creations.

Whether they are resounding successes or complete disasters, we want to see them! Take a picture and tag us on Facebook ( Facebook.com/localfoodadventures ) and Instagram  (@localfoodfun ) using  #yummyoakland for a chance to win a Local Love Gift Box!

Oakland’s Foodie Scene is Waiting

And we can’t wait to welcome you back!

It’s important to follow all of the latest guidelines when it comes to dealing with this pandemic, but we also wanted to say that we can’t wait to get back out there and do what we do best: show off the East Bay Area’s amazing food. Sign up on our interest list and you’ll get first priority on our Local Food Adventures once our tours are available!

Supporting Local Businesses

We have always believed in supporting local businesses here at Local Food Adventures, and that’s more important now than ever before. Not only do we support our small business partners, but we also give $1 for every tour ticket to our local Alameda County Community Food Bank. We hope that this cookbook will inspire some of you to make sure to visit these amazing East Bay restaurants and foodie spots once the lockdown has been lifted. It’s great to support local businesses while enjoying some tasty local food!

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