When is the last time you ate a tomato? What did it taste like? Where did it come from? If the answers to those questions are a.) within the past few months, b.) it had no taste at all, and c.) it came from the store or a restaurant, chances are you ate a modern-day [...]
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Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while.
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Up until a few weeks ago I would call myself a complete wine novice. To me, wine has always been just another drink choice. I’ve been sitting here in Sonoma Country, California – wine country – for a year and a half without really understanding what all the fuss was about. Then a friend took [...] “The horizon was like a perfect circle, a great embrace, and within it lay the cornfields, still green, and the yellow wheat stubble, miles and miles of it, and the pasture lands where the white-faced cattle led lives of utter content,” wrote Willa Cather in The Best Years. Among those fortunate enough to have been [...] CHEF’S WALKS SEATTLE Author: Tom Douglas and Shelley Lance Publisher: Amazon Kindle, 2011 Although this book is only available to Kindle owners, I wanted to tell everyone about it because it’s such a great idea. Here’s the basic premise: Ask a well-known chef/restauranteur/cookbook author to write about the best places to eat and visit in [...] Back in the 1960s I was a fan of Peg Bracken. She wrote witty and humorous columns and books that most young women back then loved. I had a copy of her famous book for years, but I’m not sure what happened to it. Well, thank goodness, someone decided to re-publish the I Hate To [...] |
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