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. [...]
Sinking into my comfy designated role of “passenger” seat, I sit back and prepare myself for the great vacation that lies ahead. Ahh, the High Sierras… Evergreen air. Clean water. Miles of trails. I buckle my seat belt and begin skimming through the wine tasting options on the drive up to Calaveras County. Yes, that’s [...]
Killing time before the Wednesday night market in downtown Santa Rosa, I happened upon a gem of a find for men in Sonoma County. Masculine and chic, Shank boutique brings a whole lot of style without the drive to San Francisco or Marin. Shank offers a great selection of “hip” urban footwear, logo-free comfy zip [...]
Brother Juniper’s Bread Book: Slow Rise as Method and Metaphor brings the magic of Santa Rosa’s legendary baker Peter Reinhart into your home baking repertoire with great ease. Free from the intimidating methods of weighing ingredients and ad-hearing to bakers ratios in the more advance baker books (including some of Mr. Reinhardt’s newer books), Brother [...]
