San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has a new kid on the block and her name is Gigi. Well, that’s the name of the mermaid that lives in Hotel Zephyr. Call me crazy, but I recently hung out with a mermaid named Gigi. She lives directly across from Alcatraz and she has long orange hair. She’s not […]
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Turning off the highway toward Squaw Valley, home of the 1960 winter Olympics, one can’t help but get excited passing by the Olympic rings. While we may not be world class athletes, we can certainly find a plethora of activities to challenge our inner jock at Resort at Squaw Creek. Then again, we can always
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As a full time food blogger at Little Leopard Book, focused on recipe development, I’m always looking for my next great recipe inspiration. A lot of this inspiration comes while dining out. My recipes are frequently influenced by eating my way through the United States while traveling, but a lot of my recipe influence comes
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Sustainable Ranching in Northern California How connected are we to our food? My husband is a hunter; born and raised in Oregon, currently living in California. He cares about the animals that he hunts while enjoying nature. He cares that the meat he consumes hasn’t been raised on GMO fed corn and lived
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John Wayne did it. So did Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp for that matter. They all slept under a blanket full of stars while their horses waited patiently to ride them out of danger or away from a band of wild savages on horseback. No one is asking you to sleep on the ground or
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Last weekend, some friends invited my family for a weekend getaway to their mountain cabin to escape the San Francisco fog. Bear Valley? It sounded familiar, but I honestly didn’t know anything about it except that it conjured images of a skis and snowboarding. And, yes, turns out that in winter this valley in the
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