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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
