Ack! I almost missed this: The 2nd Annual Sacramento Wine & Dine Week
It started last Saturday and runs through this Saturday. Many local restaurants are offering 3- and 4-course meals for a set price. Choose from high-end eateries like Biba to casual spots like River City Brewing Company. Click here for the full list of participating restaurants and their menus. You can reserve a table right from that site as well. Get to it to try some places you've been meaning to visit.

Coming up this Saturday, June 14: The 6th Annual Grape Escape
Sponsored by Raley's, this event will be held at Cesar Chavez Park, 10th and J Streets, from 4 to 7 p.m.
More than 100 restaurants and wineries from 8 nearby counties will have samples available. Tickets are $40 ($50 day-of) and you can get $5 off by visiting a Raley's store or their Web site. Sacramento's own Rail Bridge Cellars will be there, along with Clarksburg's Bogle Vineyards & Winery. Don't forget to eat something between sips of wine: Mulvaney's, Enotria, Hawks, and Sweetwater are among the tasty options for nibbles.

June 20 at the Sacramento Co-op: the Grill it Up! Tasting Fair and Movie Night
5 to 8 p.m. for the fair (Free); 7 p.m. for the movie ($5 donation requested)
1900 Alhambra Boulvard at S Street
As you know, two issues that always seem to be popping up in the news are food safety and the loss of farm land. These events address those issues. The Tasting Fair features organic meats and information on how to know that the meat you buy is safe to eat and gentle on the animals and the environment (it will also be a lot of fun with live music, kids’ activities, a hot dog stand, and more). The same evening, they're screening the acclaimed documentary "King Corn" as a benefit for the Good Humus Farm Preservation Project; Good Humus is a small organic family farm in Capay Valley that is raising money for an easement to make the land an organic farm in perpetuity--protecting it from development.