Here is the Napa Valley Life Magazine – Spring 2021 digital issue. You can flip through it online or download it by clicking the download icon in the top left corner. It includes my three features. Pickleball: Napa Valley’s Fastest Growing Sport, page 20 A Day at the Oxbow: Napa’s Culinary Marketplace – To Gather or To Go, […]
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The Fifth Anniversary of Napa’s Mercadito Food Truck
It is the fifth anniversary of Napa’s Mercadito Food Truck. Many of you know that I have written about Mercadito a few times and tried many of the meals. I am delighted to have a menu item named after me for the anniversary celebration. It is on today’s Thursday, April 8, 2021 menu and is […]
My Silver Lining of 2020
On this first anniversary of the day COVID-19 changed my life, I share my silver lining of 2020. Friday, March 13, 2020, I was furloughed, then permanently laid off a couple of months later from the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone due to the COVID-19 shutdown. I was the professional wine tutor for the Master’s […]
Naked Wines USA Women in Wine Project
I had the great honor of being asked to interview 12 women winemakers for Naked Wines USA‘s Women in Wine project for Women’s History Month 2021. I am delighted to share with you these role models in the wine industry.Alex FarberAnne DasheAna Diogo-DraperCamille BenitahFrançoise GazeauJacqueline BahueKaren BirminghamNova Cadamatre MWOndine ChattanPenelope Gadd-CosterSharon WeeksYian Lu
The Egg Lady of Hen Pen Farm
“Until the coronavirus disrupted life, most Napa County residents never knew of The Hen Pen Farms or Emma Rasmussen because she and the farm sold directly to bakeries, restaurants and other retailers. However, over the course of the past year, Rasmussen — ‘the Egg Lady’ — has become a household name.” *CLICK HERE TO READ*
La Vie en Rose: Madeleine’s Macarons: How a Valentine’s gift, fatherhood and a pandemic created a career for one Napa Valley family
A transplant to California in the early 1990s, Dennis McIninch, born in New Jersey and raised on Italian food, never anticipated that marriage, a daughter and a pandemic would set him on the path to perfecting a famous French sweet, macarons. “La Vie en Rose: Madeleine’s Macarons: How a Valentine’s gift, fatherhood and a pandemic […]
iPOKEshack brings a taste of Hawaii to Napa
Mazotti began his research for a to-go restaurant where he could offer underrepresented cuisine like poke, ramen and dim sum. His family pushed him to pursue this possibility. He said his children told him, “Dad, you make the best poke and soups. You need to do this,” and friends chimed in, “Napa needs a full […]
