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Item Description

Where is the best bakery in Sonoma County? The best place to watch the sun set? The best place to drink beer with your dog?

When Lizzie Simon first visited Santa Rosa with her husband, the New Yorker was always looking for a guidebook that would point her toward some of these small, offbeat adventures. But that book was elusive as a warm day on the Sonoma Coast.

So Simon decided to write her own book, called “The Spinster Sisters’ Guide to Sonoma County” because she is married to Santa Rosa native Eric Anderson, a founding partner of The Spinster Sisters in Santa Rosa and Prune restaurant in New York.

The guide is as quirky and creative as the A Street neighborhood where The Spinster Sisters restaurant is located. It’s a colorful block or two of art galleries and shops, bakeries and restaurants just south of the green expanse of Juilliard Park and the concrete edifice of the Downtown Mall.

Calling upon her background as a freelance writer who covers theater and dance for the Wall Street Journal, she used 50 of the restaurant’s staff, farmers, winemakers, neighbors and regular customers as sources.

The resulting guide includes suggestions for local farms and wineries to visit, plus interesting spots to dine, drink, shop, take the kids and explore the outdoors. An index in the back provides details about each suggestion, and there are photo portraits of each of the sources, who range from Moonlight Brewing Co. founder Brian Hunt to Flying Goat Coffee owner Phil Anacker.

Used - Like new

Published 2016.  9 x 6 x 1/4"  Paperback

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