Miraflores Winery of El Dorado County has a cameo appearance in the movie “Last Weekend”, which was filmed at Lake Tahoe. The wines got their debut during a lavish end-of-summer party scene at an estate on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Bottles of Miraflores wines can be seen on the dinner table near actor Joseph […]
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By Kathryn Reed Galettes are described as free-form rustic tarts. My first one was so free form that it spilled over the sides, smoked up the oven and was not pretty. It was a good thing this was not a competition because I would have failed on overall presentation. But the taste. Wow. This really […]
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By Leslie Patton, Bloomberg Organic food sales have gone through the roof. It’s no wonder. It’s widely believed that organic foods are more nutritious and safer than non-organic — they’re even said to fight cancer — even though the evidence is far from clear. Consumers have been paying a lot to eat organic; food certified […]
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By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times For years, we’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But scientific support for that idea has been surprisingly meager, and a spate of new research at several different universities — published in multiple articles in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical […]
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The inaugural Tees and Tastings tournament at Northstar is Aug. 28. The tournament will feature a two-game, nine-hole tournament with four beer and cuisine pairings throughout the front green of the Northstar Golf Course. Winners will receive tickets to the Wine & Brew Walk event, which takes place Sept. 6 during the 29th annual Lake […]
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By Jennifer Chaussee, Reuters DAVIS — At the University of California’s prized winemaking institute near Sacramento, a sleek metal wine crusher on Thursday morning let out a deep rumble and began to shake, jostling grapes made sweeter by the state’s ongoing drought into sticky juice. Dry conditions have made this year’s crop ripen early, and […]
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By Associated Press Fido can feast with you now when you go out to eat. Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday announced signing a bill permitting pet dogs at restaurants with outdoor spaces. It does not force restaurants to allow dogs, but rather implements guidelines for how they can accommodate pets. Some local public health departments […]
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By Karen Robinson-Jacobs, Dallas Morning News Steps from the lobby of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group headquarters, a row of inauspicious Rubbermaid bins holds the crystallized future of the nation’s third largest soft drink player. The tubs contain sugar, the artificial sweetener aspartame and similar snowflake-like substances. Like its competitors Coke and Pepsi, Plano-based Dr […]
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By Mike Dunne, Sacramento Bee Marco Cappelli is pouring six wines into six glasses lined up on a counter at Miraflores Winery in the Pleasant Valley district of El Dorado County, just southeast of Placerville. He is about to give a visiting wine writer a lesson in the making of angelica, which just may be […]
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By Kathryn Reed I went a little overboard with buying bell peppers at the farmers’ market. And there was goat cheese in the fridge that needed to be used. Surely, there must be something I could do with the two of them. I had Sue roast the peppers on the barbecue. It is important to […]
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