Dee Vogel is currently eating her way through Croatia, but did take time to send a few typical plates of the Dalmatian Coast.
I can practically taste this platter of fresh cheese and red peppers sprinkled with olive oil and probably oregano.
Eleanor Hilberman, in France for the wedding of her niece, stopped sampling the culinary temples of Paris long enough to send me this mouthwatering image of salmon on a stack of endive and spring vegetables.
Two splendid dishes we sampled at La Posta last week included a gorgeous wedge of local King salmon on a bed of new peas, warm fingerling potatoes and a tasty horseradish sauce.
But the duck salad! Sometimes a combination of flavors can go super-nova. These did.
A bed of beets and wild lamb’s quarters, with bits of fig paste, toasted hazelnuts, slices of rare duck and fig vinaigrette. Rich meat, sweet beets, salty nuts, tart fig.
A-mazing!
Join the irrepressible Amanda Rehn and Coralie Delecheneau of Loire’s La Grange Tiphaine for a palate-expanding pour of a few distinctive wines.
This fabulous estate in the Loire Valley is definitely one to watch. Since 2002, Coralie and Damien Delecheneau, a husband and wife winemaking team, have been producing some distinctive wines from Chenin Blanc, both sparkling and still, and rosé and red wines from the Loire-centric red varietals Cabernet Franc, Cot and Gamay.
Join Amanda and Coralie on Friday, June 15 from 5-7pm to taste through five of their delicious wines. The $5 cost for this special event may also be applied to a bottle purchase.
Soif – 105 Walnut Avenue, downtown Santa Cruz.
Banking on a guaranteed youth audience eager to see Kristen (Twilight) Stewart, director Rupert Sanders and his henchmen have taken a timeless fairytale and twisted it into a vapid exercise in stuntwork and computer-generated predictability.
Ablaze with nothing but latex, countless thundering horses and a faux castle rising out of the gorgeous Irish coast, Snow White and the Huntsman had even the 16-year-old sitting/texting next to me alternately laughing and yawning.
The close-ups of Charlize Theron gave me time to count the pores on her nose and admire the thickness of eye shadow re-applied in every scene. The action moments gave us a chance to observe the physical awkwardness of poor young Stewart, who gamely attempts to hold our attention amidst innumerable sword fights and an inane script. Dig this—two handsome suitors and not one jot of actual romance.
But what this film does offer is the answer to a burning question: how often did women of the Middle Ages apply their mascara? (more…)
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