My guest is Charles Olken, co-author with Joseph Furstenthal of “The New Connoisseurs’ Guidbook to California Wine & Wineries.” For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries. An encyclopedia, atlas, and buying [...]
OK, so it’s been a BIG holiday season, and even January has had lots of great food and wine. How about an interesting author with his new book “Chubster – A Hipsters Guide to Losing Weight While Staying Cool” by my first guest, Martin Cizmar. You’ve heard it all before: Calorie counting is the most [...]
From the heart of Napa Valley and one of the most storied wineries in California, I’ll be talking to Director of Communications Chris O’Gorman and Merryvale Winemaker Sean Foster. While studying biochemical engineering at UCLA, he occasionally brewed beer to enjoy with friends and began to drink wine, but never with the thought that this [...]
My first guest is Jeff Scott with his new book Notes Fron a Kitchen, a massive 2-Volume set of great photos and insight in to today’s modern chef. Provocative artist, filmmaker and photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore bring you the re-envisioning of the modern American cookbook. Notes from a Kitchen redefines the cookbook [...]
My guest is San Francisco’s famous restaurateur Mitch Rosenthal with his new book “Cooking My Way Back Home” In Cooking My Way Back Home, Mitchell Rosenthal delivers the same warmth, personality, and infectious enthusiasm for sharing food as can be found at his wildly popular San Francisco restaurants, Town Hall, Anchor and Hope, and Salt House. [...]
