Tag Archive | "Stuff About Sonoma County"
social media can help sonoma county businesses through the downturn.
Yesterday two more stories were in the Press Democrat about Sonoma County businesses laying off people and cutting back on production. Agilent Technologies and one of my favorite food brands, Amy’s Kitchen, both have been hit hard by the recession. Both companies say they are cautiously optimistic about the future. This [...]
Continue reading...zinful zap events: the grand tasting.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Saturday was the big ZAP event – The Grand Zinfandel Tasting! According to my favorite wine geek and partner in wine glass breaking, Ward of WineLog Blog aka DrXeno: “Over 275 wineries, 400 wines, countless other food and wine specialists and 10,000 attendees will be participating” Judging from what I saw from my bird’s eye view of [...]
Continue reading...wine tasting as just one of the guys.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Recently I spent a day wine tasting throughout Dry Creek Valley. True, I do this all the time, so it is not blog worthy. The difference is that this time I went with my two roommates and a friend of theirs from Chicago (for this blog post I shall call him Ed, because [...]
Continue reading...images from the wine blogging conference.
Monday, October 27, 2008
As I sit here and think about where I want to go with my post(s) about this past weekend at the Wine Bloggers Conference, I keep going back to some of the images that I took over the last three days (yes, when I remembered to bring my camera) and reminiscing on how great it [...]
Continue reading...happy pepper.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The first night of my Labor Day weekend was spent drinking Papapietro Perry pinot noir and making vegetarian tacos with one of my own personal favorite chefs, my friend John. We picked tomatoes and bell peppers from his garden to make the veggie kabobs (bell peppers and onions) and salsa. As John went to [...]
Continue reading...new obession: cheese plate.
Friday, August 29, 2008
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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 [...]
Continue reading...healdsburg magazine and my now.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
It has been a little over a week since my life was completely changed. Yes, I got laid-off. It has been a huge blow to my money situation as well as my sometimes overly exaggerated ego, but thanks to the support of friends both at Hamilton Partners and around Healdsburg, I have come to terms [...]
Continue reading...a day in the life of a healdsburg local.
Friday, June 27, 2008
For the last three days I have made Palette Art Café my latest stomping ground to do my everyday online activities. Today started off dedicated to writing a blog post about my life as of Monday morning (link to post to come) but as I got up to grab my soy mocha, I came [...]
Continue reading...roshambo tournament: a sucess.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
This past Saturday was roshambo winery’s annual rock, paper, scissors tournament held at their awesome tasting room, currently in Sonoma, CA. There is so much that could be said about this event, but after seeing some of the pictures that I ended up with on my friend Lizzy’s communal camera, I was speechless so I will [...]
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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