Eat & Drink
The world of Chardonnay is vast – the grape grows seemingly anywhere, with the kind of mixed results you might expect. One proven area for substantial, mouth-watering Chardonnay is the cool Carneros region of Napa/Sonoma counties. Today’s bottling is the Estate Reserve from Artesa Winery, located high up in Napa, […]
Summer is here, and that means so many great vegetables are at the farmers’ market; if you have your own garden, you might start to see blooms transitioning into various fruits and vegetables. If you do have your own garden, you’ll soon wonder what to do with all that zucchini […]
Seems like everyone is jumping on the rosé bandwagon these days – and why not? Producers sense that wine drinkers want more flavor in their chilled summer wines, and a rosé provides more red wine qualities that come from contact with the grape skins. “This is a red wine drinker’s […]
Ornellaia and Sassicaia, those tongue-twisting “super-Tuscans,” remain great investment wines; wines that use a mix of Bordeaux grapes in Italy to produce “First Growths” of the south! But another member of this exalted club deserves your undivided attention. With a centuries-old tradition, Frescobaldi now divides its production into six distinct […]
Back in the 1980s and ’90s, I sold hundreds of cases of Domaine Du Tariquet Côtes de Gascogne white. Made from the Ugni Blanc grape, the grape of Cognac, it was (and still is) a delicious little bargain white. Importer Robert (Bobby) Kacher now brings a higher end white from […]
I remember as a child barely being able to wait for strawberries to come into season. It meant that the end of school was coming, and strawberries welcomed the much-anticipated summer. Picking strawberries also creates a little bit of nostalgia for me. As a girl on the way home from […]
Corn-based arepas are a primary staple of the Venezuelan diet; they are equivalent to the bread Americans often pair with their everyday meals. One day soon after Heli Mendez came to the United States in 1997, he walked into a build-your-own-sandwich joint and was instantly struck by the familiar concept. […]
Sarah Parker was born in Andrews, Texas, but spent most of her life in Los Angeles and Sacramento. She moved to Durham 10 years ago and has been working for Durham Catering Co. for two. She lives in historic Hope Valley with daughters Haley, 13, and Hannah, 11, who both attend […]
Sometimes, you’ve got to go with a drink for its name. This was one of those times. As soon as I saw the Skipper and a Little Buddy on Picnic’s menu, my order was decided. A Budweiser tallboy is accompanied by a well shot – siding with most of the […]
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