An idea whose time is questionable….

I admire the entrepreneurial spirit as much as the next woman, but I just have to wonder (to quote late-night talk hostess Joyce Riley) - "What were they thinking?" I am musing about the sign currently placed at the front of the former Bella Napoli, the former Il...

More Manresa

More Manresa

Last month the dishes arrived like bright, colorful jewels from the kitchen of David Kinch.Here is a celebrated plate — Into the Garden — in which choice morsels of what’s freshest and most appealing from Kinch’s grower, Love Apple Farm. Served on an...

Autumn @ Avanti

Autumn @ Avanti

A salad of trout, crisp skin/moist flesh, on a bed of green garlic, infant diced green beans, dry-farmed tomatoes and mixed shelling beans. Too good.

Surf City Wine University opens – Oct. 9

A great idea whose time is way overdue - a chance to see the wine harvest first-hand, tour and taste with the winemakers, learn the finer points of making and tasting wines. It begins on October 9 and will continue with one class each month through February of 2012....

Inside the Flame

the rituals, discoveries, and treasured sensory memories that make our home in the world

A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.

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