Designer Chocolate: Part 1
We've been busy test-driving the new glut of designer chocolate bars popping up faster than wannabe fathers of little Daniellyn. We've been swilling the outrageous 60% cacao dark chocolate with orange from Chocolove for the past year. And it still rules. however,...
Getting Stokes
As in Stokes Adobe, in old Monterey. From my seat in one of the many rooms of this lumbering old adobe — each room with three-foot walls, each room with its own fireplace — I could spit on a half dozen of the oldest buildings in California. Those would be the...
Old Monterey
The Stokes Adobe, built somewhere in the 1840s, has always been one of the impressive old landmarks of Monterey's brief stint as Capitol of California. Not only are the 3-foot thick adobe walls still atmospherically intact, but the food - Stokes is also a restaurant...
Easter Exposé
The name “Easter†honors the Anglo Saxon goddess of dawn, whose favorite animal companion was the hare. Now hares, like rabbits, aren’t exactly known for celibacy (to whit, the high school expression, to “bang like a bunnyâ€), hence they make the perfect...
Top Salad
Having eaten more than my fair share of these sensational salads, I figured I'd better confess: I have a serious thing for the Heirloom Spinach Salad at Avanti. You would too if you could see just how perfectly loaded with that mineraly fresh spinach flavor (Popeye...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.