More Valentine’s Dining
In Aptos, Muriel Loubiere has filled her Au Midi Valentine's Eve menu with food for lovers. Foods with a provençal accent. It begins with salad of Dungeness crab & shrimp, with lemon coulis & tomatoes emulsion, followed by wild mushroom crème brulée. Entrees...
Recession Dining
Here's how we handle it, this winter/recession thing. Beans, rice and Italian sausages (all natural pork made by New Leaf). Add a big glass of Bonny Doon Vineyard's excellent Sangiovese, a few candles (yes, David, we still dine by candlelight every night), and...
Award-winning Quinta Cruz
Jeff Emery’s splendid Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard wines just continue to find traction, most lately with the judges of the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Emery’s robust Graciano 2007 bearing his Quinta Cruz label, took Best of Class & Judges’ Choice...
La Nuova Posta
Katherine Stern has worked expert magic on the menu at La Posta. Since the richly resuméd chef came on board a few months ago, things have gotten very interesting at the chic Seabright dining room. Contemporary Italian cooking. Deeply burnished flavors. Uncluttered...
Sir Conan Boils
We learn many things from the new Sherlock Holmes film starring the very pretty Jude Law as Dr. Watson, and the always appealing Robert Downey Jr. as the eccentric fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. We learn for example that Madonna was right to ditch Guy Ritchie, a...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.