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 Festival….
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 oil…
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 after…
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…
Le Seigneur des Agneaux Le Seigneur des Agneaux began life five years ago as a sheep farm until Annick Balayer was bitten by the donkey-bug which happened quite by accident. Her precious sheep were being killed by the coyote,so she brought in a couple of donkeys to protect them and it was love at first…
Here are some of my fave Eastern Township stops: Domaine Pinnacle Domaine Pinnacle is a family owned orchard and cider house, where you can learn, tour, and taste, as well as stock up on their smooth, sweet, lush estate-bottled Ice Wine. This award-winning golden nectar is created from a blend of six different apples and…
If you drive about an hour from Montreal, heading south on Hwy 10, you come to The Eastern Townships, an idyllic region of Quebec tucked into the Appalachian foothills. Back in California, I’ve been describing it as, “picture the town of Napa with a New England backdrop, add a French accent (along with oodles of…
Sometimes I discover a charming off-the-beaten track country inn or a hidden cubby of a restaurant that serves French Laundry caliber food for “Golden Arches” prices that I am really torn about divulging because after the swarms of people attack,inevitably prices go up, service goes down, reservations are needed…blahblahblah. But in this case, it won’t…
Youth Food Week 2008 – The Balmoral’s number one restaurant – the first in Edinburgh to receive a Michelin star – has teamed up with The Kitchin and Restaurant Martin Wishart to create Youth Food Week–Michelin dining geared for the young people of Edinburgh. (I wish this great concept would come to the States!) Taking…
The Emirates Palace, Abu is offering an ‘all-out’ package for a mere $1,000,000 which includes the following (but keep in mind that it’s for 2 guests so that’s only a half- mill each!) *First class fights from any international destination serviced by Etihad Airlines to Abu Dhabi and seven night stay in a 680 sqm…
BOKA, which stands for Bold Original Kitchen Artistry, happily lives up to it’s name. Perfectly situated in downtown’s sleek new Hotel 1000, it is also perfectly staffed with Marc Papineau, who doubles as general manager and BOKA’s extremely talented wine director and Executive Chef Angie Roberts, a highly respected Seattle chef who has cooked at…