thursday, may 2 Wine, cheese and tapas cooking class Enjoy an evening of gourmet fromage, fantastic wines and fabulous tapas! Chefs Jodi, from Lajollacooks4u and Samantha Rees from Intimate Gatherings, will engage your taste buds with wine and cheese pairings and also guide you in a fun, hands-on tapas making class. Four gourmet cheeses will…
People complained that free blacks were given short shrift in Lincoln; that the Canadians had more involvement in the escape from Iran that was depicted in Argo; that Alfred wasn’t as cartoonish as he was shown in Hitchcock and torture was over-emphasized in Zero Dark Thirty. But so far, there hasn’t been too much buzz…
San Diego Coastkeeper, an organization that protects and restores swimmable, fishable and drinkable waters around San Diego County is reminding people this Thanksgiving to dispose of their cooking oil correctly. According to Coastkeeper, this year alone cooking grease has led to 40,040 gallons of sewage to spill into local waters just in the City of…
Being in the food and beverage industry and writing about it, I often get asked how to pair food and wine. Simply answered, pairing food and wine does take some type of knowledge, but it also takes imagination and is a lot of fun. When I first started learning about wine, I was in my…
Many of us dream of having that special getaway to retreat to on the weekends, holidays and anytime we just want to escape from the daily grind. Whether it is a mountain cabin, a casita on a lake or country cottage, we all have a need to go somewhere to rejuvenate our mind, body and…
I am visiting my hometown Portland (the real one!), Maine. In the coffee shop this morning I overheard, “A deeah run into muthah’s cah dowah when she was leavin the pahkin lot.” A perfectly clear report of a common occurrence. Had this been heard in San Diego, various “wits” would claim to need a translation….
Join the San Diego LGBT community in collecting food donations this month for women in the greater area who suffer from HIV. Up to 94% of HIV-positive women and their families in San Diego suffer from food insecurity. They don’t know where tomorrow’s meals will come from. The UC San Diego Antiviral Research Center invites…
One of the luxuries of living in the Uptown/North Park neighborhoods is that we are surrounded by many fine eateries. You can literally walk out the door to great food and gorgeous company. It is so easy to forget we live in a diverse county with close to three-million residents and a mixture of cultures…
It’s five in the morning and I must rise to stuff a bird. I could have been in Mexico or Palm Springs. Instead I committed to preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a bunch of people I really can’t believe I’m related to, including Aunt Norma’s scary son who reminds me of Damien from The Omen. They will…
