By Maria Godoy, NPR Being “born with a silver spoon in your mouth” has long been known to have advantages. Apparently, eating off a silver spoon also has its perks — it seems to make your food taste better. That’s the word from a group of researchers who’ve been studying how cutlery, dishes and other […]
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By Kathryn Reed Beer. It’s one four-letter word that can help make this heat wave tolerable. And Ray Loehrer has plenty of it right now. The South Lake Tahoe home brewer bottled a couple cases on Friday. And the mugs were already chilling in the freezer. His kitchen and laundry room look a little like […]
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Sierra Foothill wines were judged among some of the best in the California State Fair’s commercial wine competition. Judges had 2,625 wines to rate. Tying for best Sangiovese in the state were El Dorado County wineries Boeger Winery and Windwalker Winery. Crystal Basin Cellars, also in El Dorado County, was rewarded for being the best […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Pam is back in Tuscany. Sue is in heaven. And I don’t want to leave. Wine glasses keep being filled and plates of divine food are continually placed in front of us. To set the mood even more, our sommelier, Orietta Gianjorio, has an Italian accent. It was only five […]
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By Aaron Gulley, Outside There’s a trend in some cycling circles away from drink mixes and back toward real, whole foods. Osmo Nutrition puts it succinctly with their catchy tag line, “Hydration in the bottle, food in the pocket.” That might sound ridiculously basic, but it’s actually unorthodox thinking compared to the all-in-a-bottle strategies that […]
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By Kathryn Reed When the family gathered last weekend we were all asked to bring an appetizer to share. My sister, Jann, made the recipe below. I would not have thought of turning cherries into a salsa. It was so yummy I tried to keep the bowl in front of me. Cherries are one of […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR You’ve likely heard about the link between sugar consumption and Type 2 diabetes. But fresh research ties another dietary pattern to increased risk of the disease, too: eating too much red meat. It’s not that we are trying to pick on meat (I’m a meat-eater, in moderation), but the recent studies […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sports psychologists have made a living trying to figure out why people win or lose and the speed and consistency at which they do so. But I have never read about food being a motivator. I think it must be for the Zephyr Cove 3.5 women’s team. They dominate at home, having […]
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By Evan Williams SACRAMENTO – The announcements, introductions and instructions have been dispensed with. You wait patiently at your table and the sound of faintly tinkling glassware grows louder as carts laden with wine glasses, each filled with 2 ounces and labeled with a numerical code, begin to parade into the hall. The glasses are […]
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By Alexandra Wexler and Leslie Josephs, Wall Street Journal When coffee prices climbed to multi-year highs in 2011 on a scarcity of high-quality beans, farmers revved up investments in their plants, adding fertilizer, pruning trees and planting more productive varieties. But the buzz didn’t last long. The result was a glut of beans that has […]
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