The SLO County Sheriff candidates take their bite at judging homemade goodness at Idler's Mom & Apple Pie semi-finals in SLO.
Six Sheriff candidates came to Idler’s in SLO last Saturday hankering for some sweet stuff. They stepped up to the “Mom & Apple Pie” Contest judges’ table, made their way through a baker’s dozen of entries and named four semi-finalists to move on to the finals on April 24 at the Paso Robles Event Center. Baking whizzes, there’s still time to compete at the Atascadero prelim on April 10 and at the Paso Robles prelim on April 17 … Elena Carlone of Abruzzo in Italy made sure grandson Scott Liddi learned her secret recipe for foccacia. He’s
Scott Liddi
made it his own along with other fresh-from-scratch fare like biscotti and is serving it up everyday at ByScotti’s (gotta love a fun word play), 709 Fiero Lane near the SLO Airport. Welcome to the neighborhood … And in other food news – when Restaurant and Institutions ranked the top 100 grossing independent U.S. restaurants recently, the list gave shout outs to a number of major cities and a SLO County kissin’ cousin: Harris Ranch in Coalinga, holding position No. 74 … Maury Froman and partners Keith Matthias and Steven Rottman are busy guys. In addition to their real estate development company, the Rottman Group, the trio has created Compass Real Estate Group, a firm that manages difficult real estate properties for banks and other lenders.
