We spent the past few weekends in a food and wine haze, and while I loved every minute of it, but am ready to admit you can have too much of a good thing. Recently, we attended a wine tasting at Quivira Vineyards in Sonoma, County, sampling plenty of delicious food paired with the...
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Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival claims to be one of the premier culinary events. I feel further research on my part is required before I support this claim, but, thanks to Foodbuzz, I attended this event on Sunday, and holy cow! In a recent post, I touched on the current culinary obsession of...
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Given the name of this blog and the assumptions and expectations that some readers have regardings its content, I am keenly aware that its been lacking in coverage of certain areas – ahem, namely of its namesake. I will attempt to correct this oversight in time, and the first step towards closing the content...
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The custom of eating pork on New Year’s is based on the notion that pigs symbolize progress or prosperity for many cultures – not a connection that may immediately come to mind. The animal pushes forward, rooting in the ground before moving, symbolizing progress. In Italy, the fatty meat also symbolizes the fattening of...
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I’ve shocked myself and passed my one year of blogging, and I confess the actual start date is a bit muddled by a few false starts before I fully committed in November of last year. I am shocked, because if you told last year, I’d still be doing this a year from now, and...
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