Sacrifice of the Extra Virgins
Posted on December 5, 2011 - Filed Under Food & Wine, Sonoma | 1 Comment
In the Mediterranean, olive oil was a wonder substance, used as a medicine, a skin oil, a soap, even as fuel. Fill’er up with Extra Virgin please! Olive oil tastes good and doesn’t clog your plumbing. Hercules planted olive trees by pounding them into the ground with his hunky arms. Father Serra (he of the [...]
Read More..>>Moving to a Tourist Town: Sonoma, California
Posted on November 22, 2011 - Filed Under Sonoma, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
After spending most of my life as either a city dweller or a mountain hermit, I have now opted for the in-between, the idyl of small town life in a tourist destination. I have moved to the middle of a city block. There are houses to the right of me, houses to the left: a [...]
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