By Kathryn Reed HOMEWOOD – Lakeview dining at Tahoe just got elevated – to about 7,000 feet. And the food will have you rethinking your opinion about ski resort fare. This is no ordinary mountaintop dinner. It’s five courses with a different wine with each dish. And it’s an opportunity to mingle with the people […]
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By Kathryn Reed Chilled soup has never been one of my favorite meals. I think it’s more psychological than anything else. It probably has to do with hot soups that are served lukewarm don’t taste great so how could a soup purposefully served cold taste good? I know there are plenty of good soups out […]
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By Melinda Myers The cucumbers have filled the vegetable drawer, you’ve run out of cabbage recipes and your family is refusing to eat one more BLT. Or maybe you just couldn’t resist that special deal on a bushel of tomatoes, potatoes or apples at the farmer’s market. So what is a gardener or shopper to […]
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By Cathy Huyghe, Forbes NAPA — “If you’re in the wine business and you’re not making money today, it’s not the industry’s fault. Check your business model.” That’s Adam Beak, Bank of the West’s managing director of the North Coast Agricultural Banking Center/Premium Wine Group, during a phone interview last week from his office in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Summer is definitely the time of year when a variety of salads are easy to make because of the abundance of fresh ingredients available. Barbecuing the corn gave it an added crunchiness and a hint of charred flavor that you won’t get from boiling the ears. But there would be nothing wrong […]
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg For more than 70 years, Fred Starrh’s family was among the most prominent cotton growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Then shifting global markets and rising water prices told him that wouldn’t work anymore. So he replaced most of the cotton plants on his farm near Shafter, 120 miles northwest of […]
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The second annual Boil ‘n Fry Day Festival is Lake Tahoe’s version of an old-fashioned New Orleans crawdad feed, complete with live music at the MontBleu Outdoor Event Center, carnival games, hot wings, barbecue, cold crafted beer and all the fried, boiled or barbecued fresh water crustaceans festival-goers can eat. Last year, MontBleu launched the […]
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By Randy Dotinga, HealthDay A study finds that people who eat out consume an average of about 200 calories more a day than when they cook at home. They also take in more saturated fat, sugar and salt. The study has limitations. It doesn’t say anything about whether frequent restaurant diners are unhealthier than at-home […]
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There will be a pop-up dinner and farm-to-fork bus tour to extend Sample the Sierra on Labor Day weekend in South Lake Tahoe. The dinner is Aug 29 from 6-8pm at Lake Tahoe Community College. The dinner and documentary under the stars at the Demonstration Garden will feature Chef Stephen Moise of The Ridge Tahoe. […]
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The 29th annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival at Northstar is Sept. 5-7. It is three full days of cooking seminars and demonstrations, culinary competitions, wine tastings and food-themed experiences in the village and on the mountain, as well as in the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe. The Culinary Competition & Grand Tasting is Sept. […]
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