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Friday, September 14, 2012
Mushroom Mixology and Funguy & Girl Package in Carmel, Calif.
Friday, August 31, 2012
California Wine Month - September
Join the California Wine Institute and Girl Meets Grape at The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills on Thursday, September 6th from 6-9 pm and taste your way around the state (70+ wineries! - see below) as we kick off California Wine Month 2012.
More Info: http://discovercaliforniawines.com/californiawinemonth
Valet parking is included with ticket price and tickets are extremely limited. Do not miss this opportunity to celebrate California wine without leaving LA!
Heitz - Ovid - Baldacci - Trefethen - Viader - Kenefick Ranch - Kenwood Vineyards - Wrath - Bernardus - Pianetta - J. Lohr - Noble Vines - Ventana Vineyards - McCay Cellars - Machhia - Borra Vineyards - Talley - Saucelito Canyon - Laetitia - Ancient Peaks - Tangent - Zocker - Santa Cruz Mountain - Cooper-Garrod - Bargetto - Beauregard Vineyards - Silver Mountain - Woodside - Villa Creek - Adelaida - Eberle - Hope Family - Justin - Tablas Creek - Villa Creek - Brewer-Clifton - Foxen - Margerum - Buttonwood Farm - Grassini Family - Riverbench Vineyard & Winery - Balletto - Davis Bynum - Alexander Valley Vineyards - Chateau St Jean - Landmark - Quivara - Etude - J Vineyards and Winery - The Lucas Winery - Heritage Oak Winery - Michael David Winery - St. Amant Winery - Joel Gott - Rosa d’Oro - Six Sigma - The Steven Kent Winery - Mitchell Katz - Wente - Cedar Mountain - Concannon Winery - Fenestra Winery - Baily - Palumbo Family - Monte de Oro - Robert Renzoni - South Coast - Wilson Creek - Bonterra - Beringer Vineyards - Robert Mondavi Winery
Friday, August 17, 2012
Poplar Grove Penticton Gets Lt. Gov. Award + Naramata TailGate
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Mission Hill Family Estate's Summer Lineup
Sample Menu:
Locally-sourced ingredients and wine pairings from Mission Hill's portfolio. Highlights include:
- Vine Smoked Arctic Char with berry gel;
- Ocean Wise Shrimp and Sweet Corn Panna Cotta;
- Naramata White Peach Gazpacho;
- Deep Fried Hen's Egg with chickpea panisse and buttered green peas;
- "AAA" Beef Strip Loin with crispy polenta and truffled cauliflower;
- Glazed French Lemon Curd 'Bar' with basil marshmallow and pine nut crunch.
4-Course Garden to Vineyard Lunch: Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Guests are invited to join Executive Winery Chef Matthew Batey in Mission Hill's on-site varietal garden, to glean knowledge and pick their own fresh ingredients that will pair perfectly with the meal's wine selections. Enjoy a four-course tasting menu in the vineyard, created and presented by Chef Batey from the day's harvest.
Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 11am $85 per person
Summer in Whites Loggia Dinner: Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Fresh, vibrant, alluring, these words all describe the white wines of Mission Hill. This exclusive dinner is a splendid way to enjoy these exuberant wines of summer. Guests will be privy to a gorgeous pre-dinner vineyard reception, a Sommelier-hosted winery tour and a three-course wine-paired dinner, set in the winery's stunning Loggia gallery. Guests are encouraged to dress in white in celebration of the evening's wine theme.
Friday, August 3rd, 2012 at 6pm $99 per person
Purchase tickets online: missionhill.com
Mission Hill Family Estate is world renowned and honored as one of the 'Top Five Winery Restaurants in the World' by Travel + Leisure magazine. The restaurant and epicurean program is led by Executive Winery Chef Matthew Batey and Chef of The Terrace Chris Stewart. Majestic mountains, scenic lakes and lush orchards encase the winery's dramatic architecture. With sustainable practices that ensure care for the environment, and a timelessness that respects the von Mandl family's European heritage, guests experience the height of winemaking in an incomparable lakeside mountaintop winery.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Wine Evenings at Restaurant 114 Faubourg St. Honore
By Paige Donner
At the epicenter of chic, where rue Fbg. St. Honoré meets Avenue Matignon in the shade of Paris's Élysée gardens, is where you will find the restaurant 114 Faubourg.
As part of Le Bristol Hotel, but with a separate entrance and in an adjoining building, the lunch and dinner restaurant headed up by chef Eric Desbordes along with his chief Sommelier, Marco Pelletier, is altogether a destination unto itself.
Tomes can and likely will be written about the talented young chef's French cuisine, but focus here is on the restaurant's once-monthly Wine Tasting Evenings, held the first Monday of the month, to be precise.
In a city that gathers the best wines of one of the best wine-producing countries in the world, there is an unexpected and surprising dearth of good wine-tasting evenings organized for the amateur/enthusiast and/or the visiting tourist. A once-monthly excellent wine and tailored food-pairing evening open to 25 guests is hardly going to make a dent in what should be a huge demand for this type of food and wine evening event, but, at least it's a start...
Evenings start at around 7:30 with a tasting flight of four wines during which the winemaker shares tales about the vintages he's pouring. The 114 Faubourg team takes care of hosting duties, which allows these extraordinary cultivators of French wines to simply elaborate the stories of their wines in the company of the people who have come to sip and savor their particular expressions of terroir.
According to Pelletier, there is no commercial element to the evening. The winemakers are not honored guests invited to “sell” their wines. "They just come to share the story behind the wines and vintages being poured for the evening. The winemakers are often small producers that I've usually already chosen to feature and work with or who have already worked with Le Bristol for a long time," explains Pelletier. "These are the 'Haute Couture' of winegrowers."
Read more: http://technorati.com/lifestyle/travel/article/wine-evenings-at-restaurant-114-rue/#ixzz1w6g4Kbg5Saturday, April 28, 2012
GMO Labeling Initiative Heading to California Ballot!
Thanks,
Stacy Malkan
GMO Right to Know Victory Rally May 2 in Los Angeles: On Wednesday, May 2 we will be turning in more than enough signatures to bring the California Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods on the November ballot! This massive achievement is thanks to the work of thousands of volunteers across the state, including farmers, concerned, parents, activists, celebrities, sustainable businesses and many others.
Now we need your help to show the world the energy and commitment behind this historic initiative. Join us May 2 to celebrate our success and show the world our intention to win in November. We will deliver petitions in baby carriages to represent how important this issue is to future generations.
Please arrive at 10:00 a.m. May 2 with signs, posters, carriages, bring the kids and your friends!
Los Angeles area event: Meet at Board of Elections office at 12400 Imperial Highway, Norwalk. Speakers: singer, songwriter and GMO Right to Know leader Zuri Allen Star, petition leader and mom Stacey Hall, special guests TBA.
Help spread the word: http://www.carighttoknow.org/content/gmo-right-know-victory-rallies-join-us-may-2-celebrate
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Food Truck Fever Hits Paris
by Paige Donner
Paris, the ultimate city of foodies, is, as we write this, gripped with Food Truck Fever.
Yes, believe it! In exemplary fashion of how it takes several months to a few years for trends to cross the Atlantic (and it goes both ways!)... Since December, when Paris got its first Food Truck, aptly named Le Camion Qui Fume (transl. "The Smoking Truck,") to now, mid-April when Paris can boast its second Food Truck as of April 1st - Cantine California - to feed the fevered frenzy for French Fries, we can now confidently say that food trucks have firmly taken hold of the Parisian Foodie Scene.
Because, indeed, it is french fries these food trucks purvey. Cantine California offers both sweet potato french fries and regular french fries. All are organic. On their menu are also Burgers made from steak-grade quality cuts of beef bought direct from a small country farm where no hormones or other additives are used to process the meat. Same goes with the pulled pork he slow roasts in Mexican (mild) spices to achieve a very excellent Paris rendition of carne asada tacos. The taco shells are handmade in the truck and are the traditional soft tacos that anyone from California has come to expect.
And the cupcakes - red velvet with a butter cream white frosting, or a deep dark chocolate with a rich chocolate frosting - all made with organic flour that he - owner-entrepreneur Jordan Fielders (French/American/ Canadian) also buys direct from the mill. And the chocolate is Fair Trade too. The chef, also named Jordan (Powers) and her boyfriend man the cooking and prepping while Jordan Fielders, always a foodie but formerly working in the energy and mining sector, takes care of the "front of house."
Figure on about 10€ for a plate of carne asada tacos, served with lime wedges and real black beans, along with authentic hot sauce. Truly one of the few places, very few places, in Paris where you can find an authentic California -even S. of the border - taco. Hamburgers are stupefyingly delicious. I'll stop by regularly just for more sweet potato fries. And the cupcakes are a terrifying 2.50€ - terrifying because at that price I'll be able to pick up a half a dozen of those fresh baked butter cream monsters at a time.
Kudos to both Kristin of Le Camion Qui Fume - read more about her hamburgers in this month's Glamour magazine, French version - and Jordan of Cantine California for braving not just a city of foodies (yes, ok, read food snobs) but also a business bureaucracy that doesn't make things all that easy for young entrepreneurs. Although, I have to come clean, I did see a food truck parked in St. Germain - on St. Germain Blvd near rue du Bac - last year during Designer Days. They were giving away/selling little cups of butternut squash soup and macarons, if memory serves. Will have to dig up that picture I snapped...if only to prove to myself I'm not imagining it!
Also, when you reflect on the whole itinerant food vendor thing and the long history the city has with its fresh markets, all of which also have food vendor stalls established within them (like crepes to go or roasted chicken with potatoes) it doesn't, in fact, seem like such a stretch for these new kids on the block to rock up to the same curb and set up their tent, er, truck. After all, one thing Parisians do know and that's food. And every lunch hour, M-F, millions of them swarm the city streets looking for something good to eat.
FYI, Le Camion qui Fume accepts cash only; Cantine California accepts credit cards and cash. Check their sites/ Twitter feeds for today's location.
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