Special Feature: Products Sally Recommends
The Daily Dish Archive
December
31, 2000
The American Center for Food, Wine and
the Arts will open in the year 2001 in Napa, California ( www.theamericancenter.com).
Over $70 million is being raised so that visitors can learn about food and wine,
view performances and the art exhibits. To get the center under way, Robert Mondavi
donated $20 million dollars.
December
29, 2000
In 1999 the National
Restaurant Association listed ethnic fare as the number one trend in the restaurant
industry stating the "today's culinary compass points mainly toward ethnic cuisines,
foreign flavors and imported ingredients."
December
27, 2000
Prestige
Bubbly from California & Champagne is Steve Pitcher's topic for our end
of the year celebrations.
December
26, 2000
Steve Pitcher shares his Year-End
Retrospective--Best Wines Encountered in 2000.
December
24, 2000
In the United States, 11% of the population
drinks 89% of the wine consumed annually.
December
22, 2000
PEZ candies
started as small mints created in Austria in 1920. The name for PEZ is an abbreviation
for the German word for peppermint, or Pfefferminz.
December
20, 2000
Enjoy Christmas
Indian-Style by new contributor Laxmi Hiremath, who shares two recipes: Mixed
Nuts and Dried fruit Curry and Fragrant Cauliflower with Purple Poppy Seeds.
December
17, 2000
Royers Round
Top Cafe is in the small Texas town of Round Top (pop. 81 and halfway between
Houston and Austin). They serve "sophisticated comfort food" from shrimp stuffed
quail to a "Great Steak" to pork tenderloin with a peach 'n pepper glaze. 100's
of pies are shipped weekly and 1000's yearly. Don't miss the yummy chocolate chip,
pecan, butterscotch chip, and coconut lemon chess, to name only a few of their
pies.
December 14,
2000
Genius Meets Paper! Julia Child has written a new cookbook
called Julia's
Kitchen Wisdom. What would you give to see the notes Child keeps in her handwritten
loose-leaf kitchen reference guide? Your wish is granted! This clever little volume
was inspired by Child's notebook, compiled from her own "trials, remedies, and
errors." As always, Child comes to our rescue with 107 pages of text, so we can
find the answers to life's burning questions in a flash. $19.95
December
12, 2000
Consumption of wine in France has dropped from 105 liters
of wine per person in 1980 to 60 liters today. And although 47% of the French
drank wine every day in 1980, that number is now only 24%. Many younger French
people have a hard time relating to the stuffiness of the wine industry and prefer
to drink either soft drinks or liquor.
December
10, 2000
Lou Seibert Pappas says, "The Languedoc-Roussillon
region in the southern tip of France wins my trump card for a holiday destination.
Undiscovered by tour buses, this gorgeous area has everything to entertain and
inform the vacationer."
December
9, 2000
The word "Spa" is an abbreviation derived from
the axiom "Sanitas per Aqua" or healing through water. Through the ages,
civilizations have appreciated the refreshing, invigorating, soothing and healing
benefits of water. The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans created rituals around the
bath in order to promote health and well-being. Many of today's spas offer bathing
rituals.
December
7, 2000
Central
Market Cooking School in Austin, Texas offers over 450 classes a year for
home chefs. Sally enjoyed a class given by Susana Trilling from Oaxaca, Mexico,
author of Seasons
of My Heart cookbook.
December
5, 2000
Aussies
Excel in Syrah Taste-Off--"This year with eight California Syrahs matched
against four Australian Shirazs, the Australians took top honors, capturing first,
second and sixth place," says wine writer Steve Pitcher.
December
3, 2000
Gloria Kohnen shares "My
Terrific Spa Experience" with visits to two Calirornia spas: the Sonoma
Mission Inn and Spa in Northern California and the Oaks at Ojai in Southern California.
Note: This information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the businesses in question before making your plans.
