Taste Life
Summer. Long sun-filled days. And endless cookbooks to try. My mountain retreat has turned into my cookery crucible, especially for bread. A joy, I partake of on a monthly basis. Two dynamic factors always make it fun to bake in the mountains: Air and Water. Higher altitude provides less air pressure making bread rise more quickly than your sea level [...]
Sonoma County gets plenty of attention for spawning it’s most famous athlete in a generation (perhaps in it’s history?) – Levi Leipheimer. Sorry guys, Joe Montana only lives here! With that, it’s easy to assume that perhaps the greatest gift to it’s “athletes” are it’s well-treed and undulating back roads on which to cycle producing [...]
Under the guise of wanting to learn more about my hometown “food history,” I decided to investigate one of Santa Rosa’s most famous food innovators: Luther Burbank. As a foodie, I have an accelerated interest in understanding where our food comes from, the methods behind its production and the distance it has traveled before consumption. [...]
