Fresh Mint Gelato: the Sequel
Yes, I know. Many of you ran out to Shoppers to find this extraordinary frozen sin and it was all gone. Here's why. My original source, gourmet realtor Dee Vogel, confessed. She kept buying tub after tub of this Ciao Bella gelato, and has by her own admission taken on...
Plein Air Prize
Last weekend's Plein Air Affaire event at Santa Cruz' Museum of Art and History attracted thousands of visitors, and made even more thousands of dollars for the downtown arts venue. The invited artists included some of the Bay Area's leading outdoor and...
Farm-fresh Produce
By now you've already finished up your romance with English peas and have moved on to peaches and chiogga beets. We've been enjoying the strawberries and tender baby greens — both wild and cultivated — offered by the Farm Cart at UCSC. Tuesdays and Fridays, the...
Fresh Mint – Frozen Sin
Thanks to gourmet realtor Dee Vogel — a woman tireless in her quest for a better mouthfull — I discovered a wicked new way to give my mouth a treat. And thanks to those merciless Ciao Bella gelatistas, I now know about Fresh Mint. Forget about that goopey, green,...
Rose Jelly & auld lang syne
A small plate of cheese. And figs, and quince paste. And especially rose jelly. Jelly that tastes and smells like roses in some English garden. This was 'dessert' at Soif last week, where I toasted the passing of a long-lost friend.
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.