The Other Napa

What’s worth doing in the Napa Valley: a travel guide to the wine country.

Summer 2007 Gift Guide

Everyone loves a giver.

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Winter 2006 Gift Guide

Give like you’ve never given before.

Winter 2007 Gift Guide

Give while the giving’s good.

The term “artificially flavored” has long drawn scorn from food lovers. Products besmirched with the term are deemed cheap, vapid, and vaguely evil. Such foods declare themselves to have been produced via methods...

in the industry, thats probably the most valuable experience. I have a certificate in culinary arts and in restaurant management from a community college and feel my culinary education was more than adequate (and much less...

Are you talking about the CIA in Napa or the CA Culinary Academy in SF (Cordon Bleu)? I’ve been to both. The SF Academy is on Polk street. I have gone for the buffet dinners a few times. Presentation is very well done but...

Without a doubt the best deal is offered at your local commnity college. At about $50 per 45 hour class, the price can’t be beat and typically the instructors are well experienced and interested in helping you learn....

My husband and I will be in Miami for three days for art Basel and will be spending part of that time with some of his art students. I’m looking for suggestions for inexpensive (for them) but interesting(for me)restaurants....

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Has anybody had any experiences with going to the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts restaurant in Vancouver by Granville Island? I can’t seem to find any reviews on their food or prices. I would also like to have an idea...

While eating at Technique in the spring, I met the college president who explained that Le Cordon Bleu’s advantage over other culinary schools were the techniques they teach (450 specifically required by the famed French...

Anyone know of good culinary arts schools in Spain? Other than Cordon Bleu? I’ve heard a bit about IEdeG, but unclear to what extent it is a culinary degree program, if at all... Anywho let me know if you know something,...

I’m thinking of taking the three class home gourmet series at Laguna Culinary Arts with my wife. I’m looking for a proper cooking class that will teach my wife how to have a clue in the kitchen, and me the proper way...