I’ve been wanting to do another installment on my gleanings from Monterey (Cooking for Solutions), but there’s so much to say that I’ve been a bit verklempt. And then I saw this report from Greenpeace—about how grocery stores aren’t doing the best job of offering sustainable seafood—and it seemed a perfect segue into sharing some thoughts […]
As if it weren’t enough that our dear friends threw us a celebration brunch for Noe’s one year anniversary of coming home this past weekend. As if it weren’t enough that on the menu were eggs from one of their chicken coops and applewood smoked bacon made by another’s daughter’s boyfriend. As if it weren’t […]
I don’t know about you guys, but to me, summer means one thing. Sure, there are barbecues. Yes, there’s the abundance in the garden too. But summer—warm weather of any sort as a matter of fact—makes me crave a picnic more than just about anything. So I’ve done some digging and pulled together a roundup […]
I racked my brains (and the thesaurus) for a word that meant “helper” and rhymed with “dilemma,” but, alas, I couldn’t come up with any. So I just went with “assistant” and am going to jump into the main purpose of this post, which is to draw attention to the little number I added over […]
Wine has inspired more prose and poetry over the ages than just about any other subject outside of love (and for us die-hard wine fans, one could argue that even those are related). Robert Louis Stevenson even went so far as to call wine “bottled poetry.”
In a teaser to a little something I have […]
I had the oddest experience this past weekend in light of the last post and I thought you’d all get a kick out of it. Christopher and I had driven over the hills and stopped off for a cocktail at Solage in Calistoga during a glorious, honey-toned late afternoon before rolling down to Press, in […]
Earlier this week, we looked at how to deal with
I know I have a lot of parts floating out there, but I couldn’t resist this little mini-series of posts on what to do when things go wrong in the world of wine. The first part, At Home, looks at spills, chills and crumbles.
Don’t Cry Over . . .
The Scenario: You’ve just dribbled […]
