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If there is ONE food that I love most, it’s pizza. I love everything about making it, smelling it, looking at it, searching for the perfect restaurant to order it, pulling off the cheese in long, thin strands, and of course, eating it.

Pizza pairs perfectly with both beer and wine (or both at the same time) and is just as tasty hot or cold OR drunk or sober.

I am so happy that Hannah agrees with me. I definitely need to meet her in person someday.

My favorite quote from any My Drunk Kitchen ever: “Really, people are just looking to transport cheese into their mouth.”

“That’s life.”

I will be speaking about social media marketing at a trade wine and cheese event coming up on June 9th in the city of Sonoma. This will be my first “speaking” engagement, so I am beyond excited and humbled to be a part of this event. My friend and creator of Delice de La Vallee (the only goat and cow cheese available on the market), Sheana Davis is hosting this event and it truly sounds like an event I wouldn’t want to miss even if I wasn’t speaking….

I mean, they have a salsa bar… Come on now?!!?!

For more information please email her at sheana@vom.com!

See you there!

This obsession is actually a relatively new one for me, it started a year ago when my friend LoriAnn and I wanted to get cocktails at Barn Diva in Healdsburg.  We decided to order a cheese plate to soak up the alcohol we were drinking.  The appetizer had the staples that make up the typical cheese plate you see anywhere: blue cheese, a parmesan, another hard cheese and some goat cheese.

After we both realized the other’s passion for a single plate of cheese, we agreed that it was out “thing” to go on our cheese plate and wine dates. For the last year we will go on our “dates” to places around Healdsburg like Scopa, Charcuterie, Palette Art Cafe, Ravenous and Willie’s Seafood.  OK, we haven’t been to that many places but we are both of very different schedules which has not deterred our love for the cheeses.

We are planning on meeting soon to enjoy the cheese plate at Diavola, the new gourmet pizzeria in Geyerville, Ca (amazing beet salad) and then shortly after that we have a scheduled field trip to Pugs Leap Goat Cheese, located right in the middle of Dry Creek.

Watch out for more blogging and pictures on our cheese adventures.