Chocolate de Vine
Chocolate. Wine. Benefit for a great cause (S.B. Rape Crisis Center). Need I write more to tempt you? And we’re not talking just any chocolate, but some of the best this town has to offer, from Chocolate Maya to Bella Dolce.
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Miffed Moms Make Movie to Remake Menus
While you might get fed up with what your children are fed at school, few parents are like Amy Kalafa and Dr. Susan Rubin, who ended up making a film about their frustration. The pair, believing traditional school food programs have failed to safeguard the health of America’s children, started a grassroots revolution and produced the film Two Angry Moms, which you may have read about in the New York Times or heard of on KCRW’s Good Food.
Valley Grown and City Pressed, Jaffurs Wine Cellars Harvests Its ’07s
With the hustle and bustle of midday Milpas Street traffic providing an unexpected backdrop, 14 tons of syrah grapes arrived on Santa Barbara’s Eastside last week, their sweet, intoxicating aroma detectable from several blocks away. Grown in the sun-kissed climate of the Santa Ynez Valley and plucked fat from the vine just hours before, crate after crate of the deeply hued purple delights were being forklifted off a flat-bed truck parked on Montecito Street just outside Jaffurs Wine Cellars, which received the delivery into its state-of-the-art production facility for the next step in the fruit’s seasonal journey.
Recommended Wine Books for the Holidays
Fall and winter are two seasons that truly lend themselves to reading. I know there are always “summer reading lists” composed during vacation season, but I love to crack open a book when it’s cold or rainy outside and I have a bit of leisure time and solitude on my side. It helps if one is sipping a good vintage port and sitting beside a fire during these contemplative moments.
Candy We Thought Was Dandy
For All Hallows Eve, four Indy food writers offer up remembrances of sweets past.
Stateside Sets Sail
Any place that’s willing to serve a Kobe beef corndog, with sriracha ketchup and mango mustard as accoutrements no less, deserves a visit to see if it’s got the sense of humor and chutzpah to pull it off. That means culinary adventurers will have to visit the just opened Stateside Restaurant & Lounge (1114 State St., 564-1000) in the old Acapulco space in La Arcada.
Sage & Onion’s Red Dragon Souffle
Red Dragon is a cheese-not just a tattoo mentioned in a famous Fountains of Wayne song-and in the hands of Sage & Onion’s (34 E. Ortega St., 963-1012) Steven Giles, that cheese rises to heavenly heights. Right now, Giles is serving a souffle that melts in your mouth, not in the phyllo cup in which in rests but also from which it earns a bit of heft and chew.
Your Tablas Waiting
If you need evidence that Paso Robles passes for southeastern France as a wine destination, get to a tasting with Tablas Creek Vineyard at the Wine Cask (813 Anacapa St., 966-9463) on Saturday, October 27, from noon-2 p.m. When the legendary Perrin family looked for a New World site to make Rh’ne varietals, they turned to wine importer Robert Haas for help and found a location in Paso where they hoped to make wines as good as the ones they’ve produced for decades at Ch•teau de Beaucastel.
Iron Chef’s Cat Cora Comes to S.B.
Usually if you see a chef surrounded by smoke, you assume some steaks are firing up on the kitchen’s open grill. But since 2005, TV’s Iron Chef America has provided a smoke-shrouded opening so grand it might make Leni Riefenstahl blush. Each Iron Chef is shot from below, lit from below, a commanding figure coming out of the fog.
A Tour through Winemaker Daryl Sattui’s Napa Valley Ch•teau
About 14 years ago, rumors started to spread across the Napa Valley that long-time resident and vintner Daryl Sattui (owner of the famed V. Sattui Winery and tourist destination) was building himself a castle. I was living in the Napa Valley at the time, and many of the locals gossiped about how the castle would be gaudy, tacky, and would lead to the “Disneyland-ification” of the Napa Valley. Well, rumors be damned.