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Laura Werlin is a James Beard Award-winning author of six books on cheese. Learn more about her at laurawerlin.com
Rueda: Land of Lions and Verdejos
Photography by Galdones Photography When winemaking began in Rueda around 1,000 years ago, it’s a wonder anyone would have thought to plant grapes in this region of extremes – blisteringly hot summers, bitterly cold winters, and a relatively high altitude. Happily, the local monks and the Verdejo grape, native to North Africa, arrived in the […]
Talking Tapas and Spain’s Most Prestigious Wine Regions
Photography by Galdones Photography The concept of the free snack in American culture runs the gamut from dive bars to white tablecloth restaurants, places where the phrases “happy hour” and “amuse bouche” translate to small, often tasty snacks or nibbles, whether salted popcorn in a bar or more elaborate bites prepared by a restaurant is […]
The Golden Gateway to Cheese
San Franciscans have always loved their cheese. Long before the invention of the automobile, Marin French Cheese Company, California’s oldest continuously operating cheese producer, was shipping cheese downstream from its location about thirty miles northwest of San Francisco to saloons on Yerba Buena Island, just east of the city. There, dockworkers would load up on […]
Smoky Southwestern Grilled Cheese
Laura Werlin’s Smoky Southwestern Grilled Cheese sandwich is one of many from the James Beard Award Winner’s book: Great Grilled Cheese
