Posts in category Food & Farm

Vineyards and heirloom apples, goat cheese and and u-pick berries – harvest time is perfect for a road trip through western Sonoma County.

There’s no quicker escape from the tourists and cruise ships than Ensenada’s Los Globos market, where you’ll see, smell and taste the “real” Mexico.

Sometimes the various worlds that we keep carefully compartmentalized come crashing together. That’s what happened to me when I visited the Hotel California in the …

Ashland may be best known for the annual Shakespeare festival, but this southern Oregon hipster hamlet now boasts farm-to-table fare that rivals that of big sister Portland.

With the hills green and barns full of calves, lambs and baby goats, early spring is the perfect time to visit Sonoma County’s artisanal cheesemakers.

 Although folks hailing from Chicago and other parts of the midwest often complain about the traditional meat-and-potatoes diet they grew up with, it seems clear …

To tell you the truth, I didn’t want to go to Seattle’s Pike Place Market; I pictured a big tourist trap with all the original …

At brand new Social Kitchen and Microbrewery, which opened in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco last week, the concept of handcrafted microbrewed beer …

I honor the French Laundry as much as the next farm to table food fanatic. When it opened in 1994, I was travel editor at …

Harvest time in the Italian countryside functions as a collective fantasy; we all share the same longing for that iconic vine-encrusted, ochre-colored Tuscan barn set …