Roxanne’s Café, a Food Oasis
Chef Roxanne Lapuyade has some cooking advice for you: “Feel free to bend and change the rules,” she encourages while explaining the organic development of...
Category: Spice Blog
Truly Tasteful Tomatoes
Of course the French called tomatoes pommes d’amour or “apples of love.” A genuinely superior tomato consumed at the peak of ripeness inspires heights of...
Tour: Santa Margarita, Creston
This pleasant loop starts in Santa Margarita, follows the rather busy 58 for a short while before heading north on highway 229 along sportscar roads...
“What is the ideal community”
An excerpt from Dignity by Ken Layne [The following chapter about productive, positive communities rising from the ashes of the California housing bust is one...
Paul Lato, Winemaker
Sociable, genteel, cosmopolitan, and very interesting: Santa Maria winemaker Paul Lato has much in common with the wines he produces. We first tasted Paul Lato’s wines...
Super Simple and Sustainable
“Super simple!” says Chef Mark Dommen as he plates the pan-seared Black Cod on a bed of peas & carrots with a curry mint vinaigrette....
