Last weekend I traveled to northern California where I have lots of family, and while there visited Silicon Valley for the first time. There's a fabulous indoor market in San Mateo called Draeger's where I spent a long time studying the gorgeous flower selection in the middle of the store, above. Draeger's stocks everyday groceries…
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Eavesdropping while on a food tour
Though I traverse the neighborhood several times each day, it's like anyone or anything you see regularly, you begin to take it all for granted. When mother/daughter entrepreneurs Susie Smith and Jennifer Smith Schmid, (shown with consultant Steve Smith), founders of Savor Saint Louis Food Tours, invited me to tag along on the tour I…
A Wine Country Wedding
My nephew John, his bride Mary Robb and her parents left no vine unturned in planning and executing their spectacular wedding at a family-owned vineyard near St. Helena in Napa Valley last Sunday. My sister Bobbie and brother-in-law John held a fabulous rehearsal dinner at St. Helena's magical Tra Vigne the night before. The…