It’s barrel-tasting time in Sonoma. The last couple months are the quietest of the year up here, so everyone welcomes the bustle of crowds arriving to taste the barrel samples from the many participating wineries. It’s a chance for the wineries to show off the progress of this year’s harvest, and to generate some income [...]
The market hosted a private party tonight for a group of local friends who wanted to have a gathering to let their hair down and share a good meal together. It has been ridiculously warm and gorgeous in Sonoma for the last few days, and the blossoms are starting to grace the branches of the [...]
Harvest season is nearly over now and it was dampened a bit by some worrisome days of rain over the last couple weeks. Overall, the buzz is that it should be an excellent year for many wines in this region, with a cooler summer which allowed for a longer growing season. This makes the grape [...]
I have been horribly amiss at keeping you all up to date on the progress of our travels, so I must apologize. The pace of the trip as well as terrible phone and wireless service conspired to slow down my posts until I was two weeks behind somehow. And then we arrived and life took [...]
We arrived in the two-block mountain town of Silver Gate and checked into the Log Cabin Cafe, where we were staying in one of their two little cabins. We decided to take a hike in the woods around town. We were standing outside getting ready to hike and ran into one of the locals. We [...]
Our stint in Chicago is regrettably short, barely 18 hours, so we endeavored to make the best of our time there. I’m pretty familiar with this windy city from the many years I travelled here for work but I’ve very rarely had the luxury to enjoy it as a tourist. After our 8-hour drive through [...]
I sure love a good brunch, and after our taxing move and the seven hour road trip with our traumatized cats, I was searching for some comfort in something delicious and egg-laden. One of my family’s favorite places to find this type of satisfaction is a little spot called E2. The menu, handwritten in blue [...]
Our cross-country adventure began yesterday when we packed up two sedated cats, two bikes, and enough of our possessions to get us through our trip and the first couple months in Sonoma, and we headed seven hours west to Pittsburgh. The moving, clearing, and cat-drugging part of the preparation was quite taxing and I spent [...]
I've recently moved my life from Brooklyn, New York to Sonoma County, California to pursue a life in food and wine. I am now the executive chef at [big bottom market] and this blog chronicles my adventures out here in wine country.
