Several years ago, while living and working in Germany, friends invited me to visit Paris with them over a weekend. They had been; I had not. On the drive over from Wiesbaden we talked about many things. Somehow the best pecan pie came up in conversation. For me it was on a Delta airlines flight out of Atlanta. The secret was bourbon. Anyway, Gwen suggested I needed a new challenge. Bill, who…
The Tiber River flows through Rome. Has for as long as men can remember. The Tiber served as a defensive barrier during the Roman Empire. It kept the undesirables out. It also kept those who supported the city and its inhabitants living on the other side. That was true until recently, when tourists suddenly found good food, good wine, and interesting history that had been ignored. We had the opportunity to visit…
A Boston Sommelier’s Insights Karen and I were recently in Boston for a long weekend, visiting the Presidential Libraries there and in Hyde Park, New York. Two very different leaders, responding to two very different times in the history of our nation. We became interested in visiting all of the libraries of the fourteen presidents who have them, after a visit to the Bush library here in Dallas. We discovered the National…
Karen and Byron, with consultation from our California friends Pam and Warner, developed the itinerary for a day in Napa. The day would consist of driving out from San Francisco, where Byron lives and we are visiting, to Bistro Don Giovanni, located at 4110 Howard Lane in Napa, where we met Pam and Warner who were in Napa for a conference. Earlier in the week they had been to the Patel Winery,…
We decided to visit our son, who moved to San Francisco for his work. It had been a long time since we visited with him there, so Karen decided she wanted to do something special for him. She found a list of Michelin Star restaurants and asked him to select one. He chose Sorrel. Investigating what he was getting us into, we discovered that we were going to be presented with a…