I just got back from an unbelievable weekend in wine country and I can’t recommend Healdsburg enough. It has the best parts of San Francisco–you can walk everywhere including almost a dozen wine tasting rooms–mixed with the classic small town feel you get from other wine country towns like St. Helena. Where to stay?...
It was only eleven when I started writing this post and I already had hunger pains. There isn’t an excuse–I indulged in a large coffee and breakfast was a hearty helping of yogurt and granola, and I even skipped my daily a.m. swim–but there’s something about the excitement of lunchtime, where the body gets...
Everyone here in the office knows that I’m a fan of sweepstakes. In fact, our lunchtime banter often comes back to what online cooking/recipe contest I entered that weekend. It’s like playing the lottery but more interactive than asking the gas station attendant for a quick pick. When I came across this new sweepstakes...
We’re lucky to be in Marin. We can shell our own oysters in Tomales, take a hike on rugged coastal cliffs or venture to Stinson Beach for an afternoon of languid sun worshipping but when it’s time to get out of town there’s nothing better than the quick one-hour flight to Los Angeles and...
Senior Editor Mimi Towle and I share an office. It’s got a great location in the back, windows looking out at a grassy knoll. It seems to be just the right size, any larger and there’s always the chance of another tenant movin’ in. And we’ve got all the bells and whistles—brand new Apple...
I just got back from a great weekend in Napa with Sam where the temperature was in the 80s and the wine was flowing (Mumm, Joseph Phelps, Cliff Lede and Robert Sinsky). The tasting rooms were well, tasty, but I was really impressed with the new Oak Terrace at Mumm, which I visited for...
