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A bridge from chocolate to red wine

Pairing chocolate with red wine can be tricky. It’s a good idea to keep a bottle of port around, for after-dinner sipping with chocolate, but  sometimes  it’s more fun  to finish up that open bottle of  zinfandel or syrah.  Lise Ciolino, owner and winemaker  of Montemaggiore Winery in Healdsburg, came [...]

By | April 21st, 2011|0 Comments

Spring pasta refreshes with mint

Former Bon Appetit food editor Kristine Kidd was  Sunday at the Sonoma Artisan Cheese Festival last Sunday in Petaluma, demonstrating this  easy, weeknight pasta dish. This  recipe for pasta with broccoli rabe, feta and mint is a terrific way to get a taste of spring, before the spring produce really [...]

By | March 29th, 2011|0 Comments

50 ways to feed your lover

The Rodney Strong Wine and Chocolate Fantasy, held last weekend in the cool depths of the  Healdsburg winery's barrel room, was the perfect way to slide into the Valentine’s Day spirit. Romantically lit with candles and decorated with fresh flowers, the barrel room was lined with a seemingly endless supply of wine [...]

By | February 8th, 2011|0 Comments

Italian cookbook author at Bram

Berkeley chef and author Jessica Theroux spent a year in Italy, cooking and talking with a dozen Italian grandmothers and taking photographs of the countryside, the food and the people. The author will sign copies of her memoir/cookbook, “Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily,” from [...]

By | December 8th, 2010|0 Comments

Put on the Ritz with oysters

 Last week in the Press Democrat, we collected some of our readers’ favorite recipes for Thanksgiving and ran them as part of our turkey day coverage.  The torn and tattered recipes inspired Bob Bergman of Santa Rosa to send in an original  poem, “Leftovers,” as a tribute to all the [...]

By | November 24th, 2010|1 Comment

A sweet vision for Sebastopol

I met local chef and gardener Tucker Hemquist at a  party last month for Katherine Leiner’s new book, “Growing Roots: A New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks and Food Activists.” A former  olive oil maker at Skipstone Ranch in Geyserville, Hemquist is spearheading a  project to open a cooperative marketplace [...]

By | November 3rd, 2010|0 Comments

Chill out with some “angry” chiles

There’s something about high heat that brings out the screamer in all of us. Last week, while I was quietly eating my lunch in Courthouse Square, I noticed some folks yelling across Mendocino Avenue,  trying to carry on a conversation over the din of passing cars and trucks. Then, when [...]

By | September 27th, 2010|0 Comments

Pears with an Asian twist

This Saturday and Sunday, the farmers of Sonoma County are gussying up their barns and the fields, putting out the  welcome  mat for locavores  during the annual Weekend Along the Farm Trails event. One of my favorite farms to visit is Gabriel Farm in Sebastopol,  run by a young couple who have devoted [...]

By | September 24th, 2010|1 Comment

Time is ripe for tomatoes

 Finally, they’re here. Those juicy orbs of heirloom tomato goodness have arrived at the markets and in our back yards, and they’re making us all look like gourmet cooks.  Slice ‘em up, splash them with extra virgin olive oil and salt, and you feel like Mario Batali. What could be [...]

By | September 7th, 2010|0 Comments

Crock around the clock with pork

For most families in Sonoma County, this week marks back-to-school time.  It seems unfair that our kids have to head back to the classroom just as the weather warms up outdoors, but such is life on the West Coast this summer.  When kids are running from school to soccer practice to homework, [...]

By | August 23rd, 2010|1 Comment

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