“To dream awake,
to keep watch asleep,
to live while dying
and to already know oneself
resurrected!”
– Julia Esquivel, poem Threatened with Resurrection
This issue:
Top Tastes – My Top 10 Dishes & New Openings of March.
Top Tastes – 3 Affordable New Standouts: Three of my latest go-tos in Turkish, Mexican and vegan food.
Around the Bay – Weekend in Sebastopol: Talking food, coffee, distilleries, beer and more in the Sonoma town known for Gravenstein apples and wineries.
On the Town – Top 5 Whiskies of Whiskies of the World 2015.
As your personal concierge who tells it like a good friend would, I also create personalized itineraries: trips, meals, explorations (under “Services“).
Virginia
Editor, Distiller Magazine
SF Bay Guardian Critic (Weekly Column: 2009-2013)
Spoonwiz
Freelance: Whisky Magazine UK, The Times London, Eater, PureWow, Drink Me Magazine, Citysearch, NBC’s The Feast, Blackboard Eats, Tasting Table, Grubstreet, Where Magazine

