NapaValley

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Food, wine and cooking.

NapaValley is the neighborhood that always has something on the stove. Family cooks, bakers, home winemakers and herb farmers share their tables here.

Featured Homesteads in NapaValley

	Rosa's Kitchen Table by Rosa M., Fresno, California · NapaValley/Vineyard Family recipes from a big Mexican-American family, and home of the Kitchen Table WebRing.
	The Weekend Winemaker by Paul G., home winemaker · NapaValley/Cellar Making wine at home from a kit or from grapes: equipment, steps, and mistakes to avoid.
	Sourdough Sam by Sam T., Portland, Oregon · NapaValley/Bakery Starting, feeding and baking with a sourdough starter, from a home baker who's kept one since 1994.
	Hilltop Herb Farm BUSINESS NapaValley/Terrace A small family herb farm: plants, dried herbs, wreaths and fall workshop dates.
	Sunday Gravy: An Italian-American Kitchen by Angela Marchetti-Russo · NapaValley/Kitchen Sunday gravy, meatballs, braciole and the arguments about them, from a Rhode Island kitchen.
	Canning Season by Ruth Ellen Bishop · NapaValley/Harvest Safe home canning: water-bath vs. pressure canning, tomatoes, pickles, jam and the 1999 tally.
	The Pie Lady by Dolores Swensen, county fair champion · NapaValley/Bakery Blue-ribbon pie crust, apple and cherry pie, and the secrets of the fair judges.
	The Cheese Course by Peter and Anne Gullett · NapaValley/Cellar Learning about cheese one wedge at a time: a tasting log, how to serve it and a trip to a creamery.
	Grandma Rosa's Sunday Table by Rosa's granddaughter Elena Marquez · NapaValley/Vineyard A granddaughter's tribute page: photos to come, the recipes she's learning, and the Sunday tradition.
	Crush JOURNAL by Rosa Ybarra · NapaValley/Harvest An assistant winemaker writes through the 1999 harvest, and about her father, who still picks.
	Kimchi and Hotdish JOURNAL by Anna Johansson · NapaValley/Kitchen A Korean adoptee raised in Minnesota, now a sous chef, searches for her birth family.
	Lines Written in a Kitchen by Marcel Dufresne · NapaValley/Terrace A retired chef writes short prose poems about bread, his mother and sixty years at the stove.
	Merle's Spam Appreciation Page by Merle Haugland · NapaValley/Harvest A retired Minnesota highway man's tribute to the canned meat from just down the road in Austin. Facts, stories, haiku and recipes.
	Mama's Village - Our Trip to Sicily by Wanda Carpino · NapaValley/Kitchen Mama wanted to see her father's village in Sicily, so in May we went. The cousins fed us for twelve days straight. Pictures and recipes inside.
	Recipes That Print Right by Mae Barfield · NapaValley/Kitchen Most recipe pages print as one long paragraph. Here's how to set a recipe so it prints like a card, from a church cookbook editor.
	The Fruitcake Defense League by Peter Neves · NapaValley/Bakery Forty-one years baking in Fall River taught me the truth: a good fruitcake is a fine thing. Myths answered, my recipe, and the Fruitcake Amnesty.
	Dad's Kitchen Table by Bernard Racine · NapaValley/Kitchen A New Hampshire machinist raising two girls on my own: fourteen weeknight suppers, French braids, and what single dads learn.
	Lazy Q Barbecue Cooking Team by Billy Mason · NapaValley/Harvest Four buddies, one wife who's the brains, and a propane-tank smoker. Our 1999 contest results and what we know about low and slow.
	Hannah's Recipes from A to Z by Hannah Blubaugh · NapaValley/Kitchen Fifty years of recipes from our farm kitchen in Somerset County, one letter at a time. We're up to F! G is coming soon.
	Wheat-Free in Wisconsin by Janice Lehmann · NapaValley/Bakery Celiac sprue, found at forty-six after years of being told it was nerves. What it is, what I can't eat, and recipes for bread that tastes like bread.
	The CarboyCam - Live Fermentation from Fort Collins by Dennis Link · NapaValley/Cellar Batch No. 43, an Irish red ale, brewed Saturday and going like crazy. Watch the yeast work, live, every five minutes. Yes, really.
	Dixie's Cake Book - Twenty-Eight Years of Buttercream by Dixie Holt · NapaValley/Bakery Wedding cakes, tractor cakes, castle cakes and one bass jumping out of a lake. My cakes from 1999, my buttercream and how to pipe a rose.
	Sap Bucket: A Vermont Sugarhouse Family by William and Debbie Lacourse · NapaValley/Harvest We sold the cows in 1994 and tapped the trees instead. How syrup is made, the 1999 season, what fall work in a sugarbush looks like, and why the squirrels are our enemies.
	The Second Thursday Wine Society by Neil Gregg · NapaValley/Cellar Twelve couples, six bottles in paper bags, one rule: nothing over fifteen dollars. Our tastings, our scores, how to run a blind tasting, and what we've learned since 1993.
	The Fortune Cookie Ledger by Robert Willoughby · NapaValley/Kitchen Four hundred and twelve fortunes in a shoebox since 1985, each one checked against what actually happened. My accuracy ratings, the lucky numbers that never won, and the hall of fame.

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