California History, Luxury Merge at Historic Mission Inn

California History, Luxury Merge at Historic Mission Inn

Most people can’t really think of one distinguishing characteristic about Riverside, California.

But get on down off the freeway and you’ll find one of the most unique getaway experiences in the state – an experience that transports you to Early California through architecture and through the [...]

DaVinci Winery Review

DaVinci Winery Review

Article by Mark Aselstine

Even twenty years ago most wine drinkers the world over thought of Italian Chianti as peasant food, luckily for wine lovers everywhere that opinion has been slowly eroded away by producers that have been able to balance traditional Italian grapes [...]

Hotel California Meets The Great Gats: Music as a Teaching Resource for Literature

Hotel California Meets The Great Gats: Music as a Teaching Resource for Literature

Article by Paul Thomson

The most famous artistic product of the boozy 1920′s is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a novel about a man trying to recreate an ideal past in a drunken, [...]

Washington: The “Dual Zone” Wine Country

Washington: The “Dual Zone” Wine Country

Article by Ronald Senn

My son and his family used to live in Anacortes, Washington. We generally traveled to visit them by either by taking Interstate 5 north from California or Interstates 82 and 90 west from Idaho. Along both of [...]

Finding best Italian restaurants in California

Finding best Italian restaurants in California

Article by Fresco

‘The Golden State’, California is replete with Italian restaurants since, a major share of the populace comprises Hispanic or Latino people. With plenty of delectable dishes that are made from fresh ingredients and exotic flavors, Italian cuisine is [...]

Review: San Francisco Cooking School tastes Big Sur Monastery Fruitcake

Review: San Francisco Cooking School tastes Big Sur Monastery Fruitcake

Festivities of Christmas are marked by various factors, food one of the important parts of any celebratory season in the Christian year. In an effort to find out about fruitcake and its favor among those who enjoy this dessert in the Christmas season, we [...]

Wine Recipes – Pairing Wine And Pizza

Wine Recipes – Pairing Wine And Pizza

Till now, beer was seen among the only choices to accompany the popular Italian dish pizzas. But, the trend has altered now. More and more people liking to mix the Italian treat pizza with classy wines now-a-days. There are numerous kinds of wines that may be paired [...]

WINE REVIEW: non-vintage Pinecroft Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay from California

WINE REVIEW: non-vintage Pinecroft Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay from California

California Wine Club Review

The California Wine Club is a fun, convenient way to experience quality California wines and offers an excellent choice of wines not typically found in local stores or wine shops. Four wine of the month clubs to choose from only feature hand-crafted award-winning wines from real working, artisan wineries. Choose a club that [...]

A Smoky Vintage: 2008 California Pinot Noir

A Smoky Vintage: 2008 California Pinot Noir

Article by Jessica Fialkovich

We may not remember it clearly, but the headlines during the summer of 2008 were all about the wildfires raging in California. They spread from Santa Barbara to Oregon. They were collectively called the “Northern California [...]