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| Although food and recipes
are my passion, increasingly I've had the opportunity to write about travel, people, places, and other subjects. Here are a few of those stories. |
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Published non-food writing includes:
EASTER PARADE Intricate, colorful carpets made entirely of sawdust and flowers line the cobblestone streets in the town of Antigua, Guatemala, about an hour's cab, shuttle, or bus ride from Guatemala City. Heady clouds of church incense fill the air. A band of musicians plays an off-key dirge. And through the smoke, costumed worshippers slowly, laboriously proceed, shouldering an ornate, school-bus-sized float depicting the crucifixion...
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BAMBOOWriter Jill Silverman Hough raises cane at a nursery, where a man's life work has become a landscaper's heaven. Paragons section, February 2004 About an hour north of San Francisco, in the heart of California's Redwood country, is a seemingly out-of-place venture: Bamboo Sourcery, a seven-acre bamboo nursery and demonstration garden...
WINE COUNTRY ITINERARIES Getting to know the towns of Napa and Sonoma counties. Quick Trips section, Fall 2006/Winter 2007
You’re in Wine
Country, and your performance doesn’t start for a while. You don’t
feel like visiting a winery, and you don’t have time for dinner. All
of a sudden you realize that you don’t really know Wine Country all
that well. Here’s a selection of things to see and do in Petaluma and
Yountville...
HAPPILY EVER AFTER Calistoga artist Lowell Herrero lives a charmed life – and knows it. People section, Fall 2006/Winter 2007
“Cats?” asks
Lowell Herrero. “What did I know about painting cats?” And yet paint
them he did, for 20 years. These paintings – which were turned into
wildly popular cat calendars, cards, prints, posters, stationery, you
name it – made Lowell Herrero, if not a household name, certainly a
household artist...
WINE COUNTRY AFTER DARK For me, moving to wine country from San Francisco was a big deal. Wine country may match the city in terms of wine and food, but did it have the broader vitality I was used to in the city? Specifically, was there anything to do after dark? Anything cool, besides going out to dinner? Four years later, I'm pleased to report that the answer is a definite yes. And as the area increases in population, the nightlife burgeons with it: there are sophisticated, fun, and interesting venues popping up all the time. Here are some of the best...
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN "Are we a museum? A visitors center? Maybe a cultural center?" These are some of the questions that Arthur Jacobus has been pondering since July, when he took the helm at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa... |
