{"id":68649,"date":"2025-11-25T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:30:13","slug":"travel-magazine-publisher-praises-fresno-countys-culinary-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68649\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel magazine publisher praises Fresno County\u2019s culinary scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tom-kane-food-travel-magazine.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"a tuxedoed man with a logo and magazine on either side of him\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Visit Fresno County hosted Food &amp; Travel Magazine Publisher Tom Kane on a two-day tour of the county&#8217;s culinary hotspots. Kane photo by Wikipedia user Zaphryn78 under Creative Commons license. Photo illustration by Cecilia Lopez<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County is featured as a top destination in the 2025 special holiday issue of Food &amp; Travel magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The writeup highlights the \u201cflavors, farms, and chefs that make our area the heart of California\u2019s food story,\u201d according to a social media post by Visit Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/foodandtravelmagazine.com\/2025\/10\/29\/fresno-the-heart-of-americas-harvest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">story is written by Tom Kane, publisher of Food &amp; Travel Magazine<\/a>. Kane is also a former songwriter, filmmaker and rapper under the stage name \u201cPoverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kane recounts joining a group of other travel writers and influencers for a two-day culinary tour of Fresno County hosted by Visit Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>Kane shouts out several culinary destinations, events and suppliers, including the Vineyard Farmers Market, Westwoods BBQ &amp; Spice Company (the best barbecue he\u2019s had in California), Triple Delight Blueberries, Raphio Chocolate, Fresno Underground Suppers and the private \u201cCook It In Clovis Cook-Off\u201d competition.<\/p>\n<p>He said he sampled the food of local chefs including Daniel and Claire Skinner, Chef Robert Ortiz III, Chef Ross Verzosa and Robert W. Snyder III, former executive sous chef with The Elderberry House in Oakhurst.<\/p>\n<p>The group visited with Ryan Jacobsen, president and CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, who spoke about family farming and especially the local blueberry industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn forty-eight hours, Fresno showed me its heart\u2014in the arch of a redwood truss, in a jar of blood orange marmalade, in a blueberry picked by hand and eaten under the sun,\u201d Kane wrote. \u201cThis place isn\u2019t trying to reinvent itself. It\u2019s reminding the world what sustains it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Food &amp; Travel Magazine is an international travel publication with a print circulation of 31,000 per issue and a total readership of 108,000, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/foodandtravel.com\/assets\/img\/content\/48hours\/Food-and-Travel-media-pack-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">online media kit<\/a>. It\u2019s digital reach is 1.24 million per month, with a social following of 78,000 and opted-in newsletter subscribers of 97,000.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visit Fresno County hosted Food &amp; Travel Magazine Publisher Tom Kane on a two-day tour of the county&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-68649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}