Destination: Singapore
Q San Francisco January 1998 Pages 43-44 Destination: Singapore At the time when Robert Louis Stevenson (the Treasure Island guy) penned these words, few people could afford either the time or the money to truly…
Harvest Fusion
Q San Francisco November 1997 Pages 44-45 Multiculturalism is the “ism” of the 1990s and food is no exception. I recently returned to my hometown in the Midwest to discover a new “multicultural” restaurant had…
Affordable Elegance
Q San Francisco September 1997 Pages 42-43 Affordable Elegance There are wines in the world that are renowned far and wide for their quality and excellence. Most of these need no advertising, and certainly no…
WINE & Pork
Wine & Spirits Fall 1997 Guide to Understanding Wine & Food Pages 59-65 WINE & Pork Dan Perlman, with Lidia Bastianich and Chef Fortunato Nictora I remember as a child how the slaughtering of pigs…
Promises to Keep
Santé The Magazine for Restaurant Professionals September-October 1997 Pages 30-31, 59-60 Promises to Keep On the day of my twenty-fifth birthday, September 19, 1983, the Carneros AVA was born. I don’t remember the details of…
Summer Salads
Q San Francisco July 1997 Pages 42-43 Summer Salads In cooking school we learned that there are two kinds of salads, simple and composed. Simple salads consist of a single ingredient, like lettuce, with a…
Fine Tuning
Santé The Magazine for Restaurant Professionals May/June 1997 Pages 37-39 Wine List Makeover Fine Tuning Despite having spent many years in the restaurant business, and most of them as a chef, the term “organic” in…
Wine Notes May – June 1997
Felidia Ristorante Wine Notes May – June 1997 Who’s Fiddling With Pinot Nero? Pinot Nero, more commonly known to us by its French name, Pinot Noir, is a member of the family that includes Pinot…