If Wynonie Harris took the words right out of your mouth when she sang:
Baby don’t take my whiskey ‘way from me.
Baby don’t take my whiskey ‘way from me.
You can help yourself to my last dollar,
If you touch my jug, you’re gonna hear me holler!
Don’t take my whiskey ‘way from me.
Then you won’t want [...]

…and YES, I WOULD WANT TO LIVE THERE!
Cleveland may not be on your top 10 list of where to go for your next Culinary Adventure– maybe not even on your top 50 list…but that would be a BIG “Pretty Woman” sized mistake on your part. (Don’t feel too bad, it wouldn’t have been on my [...]

I recently received a Fall-special care package from SPLIT BEAN COFFEE, a Southern California based Micro-Roaster of single origin Nicaraguan Coffees, and confectioner of Artisan Quality Gourmet Sweets, featuring their world famous Alfajores La Misión® and their Dulces del Rocío® Award Winning Marshmallows. All of Split Beans products are freshly made by hand upon ordering, [...]

Wait, I know…by making a weekend of it and staying overnight for some Good Music. (I know this is late notice but I just heard it through the grapevine.) But if you hurry, there are still a few tickets available for both B.R. Cohn Friday’s night Charities Auction Dinner and also for Saturday’s Music [...]

I can’t believe it’s already been 15 years since Oldways, a widely-respected non-profit “food issues think tank” successfully introduced the consumer-friendly health-promoting Mediterranean Diet Pyramid. I remember we all had fantastic time eating, drinking and learning from the pros about incorporating more Mediterranean foods into your diet. (Keep in mind that back then, olive [...]

At home, I’ve always had a wide assortment of exotic red, green, white, and black peppercorns on hand to spice up my cooking. Lately, I’ve added on a whole shelf of specialty rainbow- colored salts. But alas, while traveling I had to make due with a shake of plain ol’ S & P–that is until [...]

My past experiences with Filipino food could be summed up in two words: Lumpia and Adobo, which were always served lukewarm and swimming in grease, from the steam-table of some bare-bones divey restaurant, on the streets of Manhattan, close to a hospital. No wonder I thought I didn’t particularly care for the cuisine. But [...]

If the recent Slow Food Festival in San Francisco, just whet your appetite to taste and learn more about delicious, nutritious, sustainable, organic, fair trade food and beverages then you’ll want to check out the British Columbia’s, EAT! Fraser Valley, with its multitude of exhibitors, many based in the Fraser Valley, who are coming to [...]