Gayle’s Turns 30!
Unbelievable - but true. While the actual celebration happens on February 14, the glorious bakery and rosticerria is offering oodles of great reasons to come to Gayle's starting right now. Pictured here is a lunch we took home last week — luscious rosti from the...
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Only 3600 bottles of St. George "Absinthe Verte" were made last year by inventive distiller Lance Winters. And I scored one of them last week. Yes, this was the allegedly hallucinogenic tipple that fueled artists, poets and bohemians at the turn-of-the-century. Think...
Texas Tipple
It's not everyday I'm faced with a wine made in Texas. So when my New Year's Eve hosts offered me a glass of McPherson Viognier, I struggled to suppress a smug smile. What I tasted wiped that grin right off my face. A Viognier from Lubbock! And a good one. Who knew?...
Stormy Weather
We lost two local legends last week — Gilda Stagnaro, matriarch of the wharf, and Gary Lease, scholar, hunter extraordinaire and Professor of History of Consciousness. Gilda made a place at her table for over 35 years for devoted locals and delighted visitors. A...
National Drek
How can we explain the Disney-produced mess that is National Treasure 2? How is it possible that Nicolas Cage - with his monochromatic, slack-jawed, puppy-eyed expression, his bad dye job, his cornball tendency to break out in patriotic sweats at the drop of a hat -...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.