Late Harvest Salad
While quaffing a bracing bit of white wine from the French Savoie, I inhaled my new favorite appetizer at Soif. Served in a rustic glazed dish, fat gigande beans were joined by pancetta and those sexy end-of-the-season tomatoes that taste like a Mediterranean smile....
Late Harvest Tomatoes
Worth waiting for! These are luscious examples of what a Mediterranean climate, ingenuity and lush, organically-composted soil can do. They come from the sun-drenched Ben Lomond gardens of my friends Mateo and Francesca. Green Zebra, Matina, Heart of Compassion, Black...
Man on Wire
There's a bit of cinematic poetry now showing at The Nick - for the last week! - called Man on Wire. In spellbinding moves, the film tracks the planning behind an astonishing feat of mad, bravura creativity by French wire walker Phillipe Petit. With the help of...
Fall Attractions: TomatoFest
Pomodori Time! The 17th Annual NatureSweet Carmel TomatoFest®, happens once again on Sunday, September 14, 2008,12:30 pm, at the magnificent Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel.Founder/Director of the TomatoFest®, Gary Ibsen, announced that 60 of America’s finest chefs...
Flying High
The infamous Le Cigare Volant, now in its 21st vintage, was the wine that launched Rhône Ranger Randall Grahm into the oenological stratosphere. A brilliant riff upon the Châteauneuf-du-Pape blend of grenache, syrah, mourvedre and a few dabs of this and that, the...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.