Our Wine-of-the-Month for October is the Beaulieu Vineyard’s 2009 BeauRouge (French for “Beautiful Red”), from California’s Napa Valley. This is the premiere vintage of this wine from the historic Beaulieu Vineyard (founded in 1900, and continually operating since, even through Prohibition!), which is a blend of more varietals than we can count in one short […]

We tend to think of avocados chopped into fresh salads or smushed onto whole-grain breakfast toast. But, thanks to the Internet, we recently learned that they can also be coated in batter and submerged into a vat of bubbling oil until golden and crispy and retaining very little of their nutritive properties. And, you know […]