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Nov 9, 2025
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Merlot: The Flavor Thread
The bottle opens with a low glug. Merlot hits the pan with a subtle hiss. Dark fruit warms over flame, mingling with rosemary and softened shallots. Steam rises. The sauce takes on a glossy sheen, shifting from ruby to...
Karen Crouse Napa Valley
Mustard paints the Napa Valley floor in bold yellow each winter, a striking contrast to bare vines and rain darkened hillsides. While the landscape looks alive with color, nature is fully focused on restoration, shifting...
Napa Valley Restaurant Month
For some, January is the gloomiest month of the year. Post-holiday blues, winter dragging on, New Year’s resolutions looming—but here in Napa Valley, we’re having none of that. January is the perfect time to experience Napa...
The Delicious Evolution of
California’s Cheese Trail
The Cheese Trail started with a map to put California’s artisan cheesemakers on the radar. It was a labor of love, a grassroots attempt to connect curious travelers with family-owned dairy farms. Michael Straus, who...
Dining Deliciously Gluten-Free
Ten years ago, when celebrities started touting that by eliminating gluten, they lost weight, cured insomnia, and improved their thinking, it became a fad, and people began to follow a gluten-free diet without even...
Feasting with the Fam
Napa Valley is a great place to dine with the family for a special celebration or basic sustenance. Not only is there a wide range of options in the way of global and fusion cuisines, but a number of the region’s fine...
The New Year
The new year is approaching, a time when people take stock of their lives and well-being. Some may choose to make resolutions to lose weight, exercise more, spend more time with family and friends, and get more...
Amuse Bouche
By all means, come for the wine, which will not disappoint. Beyond wine, know that nearly anywhere one goes in Napa Valley, there is always something delightful, unexpectedly delicious, or exotic to taste. Napa Valley’s...
Cooking with Karen Crouse: Beef Burgundy
The origin of Beef Burgundy dates to the Middle Ages when it was created to transform tougher cuts of meat, like beef chuck, into something tender and flavorful. By slowly cooking the meat in wine and aromatic vegetables,...
Breaking Bread
Yes, the breads in Napa Valley are that good – a religious experience by any definition. On this, the devout, agnostics, atheists, and foodies can all agree. And there is no shortage of it in the valley. The question really...
Side Trip: Healdsburg
‘It was just a little farm town,’ locals tend to say when speaking of “old” Healdsburg (just over twenty years ago). That’s no longer the case, as evidenced by the Healdsburg Wine and Food Experience (HWFE), the first...
Music for Your Mouth
BottleRock Napa Valley, which entered the scene in 2013, is now an institution in the region, with an estimated 120,000 people attending the 3-day festival each year. In 2015, a new component was added to the BottleRock...
Food from the Heart
Napa Valley is blessed with some of the best farmers markets in California, the bounty of which spills over into almost every month of the year. The Calistoga Farmers Market is open year-round every Saturday from...
Inspired By Delicious Food and
Drinks at Silverado Resort
What’s on today’s menu? Imagine opening the restaurant menu at a favorite wine country resort and finding the entrées listed under creativity, craft, and passion. Together with the keyword “fresh,” it’s a wonderful...
Forks and Corks 2024
Nestled in the heart of California's wine country, Napa Valley is a world-renowned destination for food and wine enthusiasts, offering a unique blend of world-class wines and culinary delights. In this issue, we celebrate...
Napa Valley’s Burgeoning Food Truck Scene
Just when it seemed dining out was out of reach due to the rising cost of everything, along came an army of food trucks ready to serve up hot, tasty, inexpensive treats. Though Napa has always had its share of fabulous taco...
Holiday Desserts Deserve Festive Pairings
With the holiday season approaching, it’s time to start thinking about what favorites will be served on this year’s table. For many families, it’s all about tradition, pulling out grandma’s stuffing recipe, leaning into...
Cooking with Karen Crouse
Bread pudding’s origin dates to the 11th century in England as a use for stale bread so it would not go to waste. It has since graced the menus of fine restaurants around the globe. My recipe is a fusion of simple...
Eiko’s New Menu Reveal
Eiko’s Modern Japanese Cuisine is a favorite of Napa locals, with Chef Takeki Noma sending out a stream of exceptional dishes from his kitchen daily. The restaurant’s menu is expansive: Japanese tapas, signature “sushi”...
Chef Stefano Masanti
Fifteen-time Michelin Star Chef Stefano Masanti’s future was preordained at eight when he asked his parents for a chef’s jacket for Christmas. His father, Franco, bought the smallest jacket he could find, and his...
