I am always on the search for quality value wines and you all know I love to cook too. So when my friend Amy, aka the VineSleuth, contacted me for help on her new ebook I jumped at the opportunity. Amy has created a fun and savvy cookbook with recipes by cookbook author and mom [...]
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I have just returned from Italy where I spent nine days exploring the wine, food, and sights with a group of talented (and fun) bloggers, writers, and other media. We were there for the International Wine Tourism Conference where I presented a seminar titled, “A Sense of Place: How to leverage your region and place [...]
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2011 was a whirlwind of a year for me. Looking back much of it seems like a blur. My twin boys were born in December of 2010, just three weeks before the beginning of the new year so a large chunk was spent getting to know my little guys, taking care of them, and cherishing [...]
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I’m giving away a prize people… better keep reading! Today is an incredibly special day for me. Not only is it just another day in the midst of my favorite time of the year (the holidays), it is my twin boys first birthday! Holy wow did that year fly by!!! I have a whirlwind of [...]
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…Not your average Thanksgiving wine post… I had a very hard time accepting the fact that I would spend my first Thanksgiving away from my family in Arizona. This was many years ago mind you. We had many family customs that made me nervous to explore what others traditions would be like. My family never [...]
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“Things could have been worse”. A phrase I heard about a million times during the eleven days I was without power following the October 29th freak Connecticut snowstorm – A snowstorm that managed to knock down thousands of trees and power lines throughout the state causing the single biggest power outage in the states history. [...]
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*Disclaimer: This post has very little to do with wine and a lot to do with my potty mouth You know those people, at the end of a marathon, who limp pathetically towards the finish line in what looks like slow motion, looking like they are about to throw up any second, with an intense [...]
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In the wine world we often refer to the term terroir. While there is no definitive definition of the word terroir, it is often used to describe the many unique aspects of a location that influence a wine specific to a region, or as Jancis Robinson describes in the Oxford Companion to Wine, “the total [...]
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This past weekend I ran my longest single run ever – 15 miles. Prior to this my longest run was the two half marathons (13.1 miles) I ran back in 2009 and never imagined I would ever exceed that distance. But I did, and plan to do it four more times until October 15th, when [...]
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For Father’s Day this year I want to send a very special shout out to the two most important men in my life – My own father and my hubby who is celebrating his first “official” Father’s Day today. To my dad, Thank you for being such an incredible source of patience, kindness, love, laughter, [...]
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