Most Recent Articles

Kids the Kitchen:
Gifts for Children who Love to Cook

Holiday Cooking with Kids:
Building a Chocolate House

New Restaurant Reviews:
New York:
Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Corton, Marea, Grammercy Tavern, Kurumazushi, dbBistro, Petrie Court Cafe

Holiday Cooking with Kids - Recipe:
Easy Apple Galette & Quick Pastry

Essay from Joanne:
Vitamin-Enriched Kids

Restaurant Reviews:
Restaurants in Ireland:
Ballymaloe House, Dunbrody House,
Ard Bia, Packie's, Aherne's,
New Forge House, AVOCA Powerscourt, Mulcahey's, Out of the Blue, St. Cleran's

Food-related DVDs

Major new article:
Getting your Kids to Like
and Eat Diverse Foods
plus, Better Snacks
and Packed Lunches

Natural and Biodynamic Wine Producers List
Passes 500 producers!

Major New Page: Directory of
Irish Farmhouse Cheeses

Stinging Nettles for Simple herbal Syrup


Popular Recipes

 • Pork Tenderloin with Dukkah

 • Fast Lasagna

 • Brussel Sprouts with pancetta and walnuts


Books & Reviews

Cheese Tasting Party Kit - Janet Fletcher
The Cheese Tasting Party Kit
by Janet Fletcher with Victoria Pearson (photographer)
From the SF Chronicle Cheese columnist this party kit offers profiles of 50 cheese varieties along with suggestions for the best wines to drink with them, Labels and toothpicks are provided on which to write each cheese selection.
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Mastering Cheese Max McCalman
 Mastering Cheese: Lessons for Connoisseurship from a Maître Fromager
by Max McCalman & David Gibbons
The maitre fromager from Artisanal 's new treatise on cheese. Covers cheese in 22 lessons (which show cheese plates) and has an index of over 300 cheeses. A Must-have in the cheese library.
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In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen - Vermont Butter & Cheese Co's Allison Hooper and Steven Jenkins
In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen: Celebrating 25 Years of Artisanal Cheesemaking from Vermont Butter & Cheese Company
by Allison Hooper with Steven Jenkins
A cookbook rather than cheese treatise by artisan cheesemaker and co-founder of Vermont Butter & Cheese Co. In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen is a treasury of recipes which incorporate products from VB&C. Recipes from East Coast culinary luminaries such as Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin, Michel Richard of Citronelle, Dan Barber of Blue Hill and former CEO of Clicquot, Inc., Mireille Guiliano are featured.
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Recommended Reading:
The Unhealthy Truth: How our Food is Making Us Scik and What we Can do about it
The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It
by Robyn O'Brien with Rachel Kranz
A mother of 4 looks at how toxic chemicals have infiltrated our food system which can be blamed increases in allergies, ADHD, cancer, and asthma especially among children.The Unhealthy Truth offers recipes and an action plan for avoiding chemicals and toxins in food.
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Welcome to
Fork & Bottle
Fork & Bottle focuses on our love of food, especially wine and cheese. We are picky about where our food comes from, how it tastes and how sustainable it is. We are always hunting for great, real food – not the stuff found in big supermarkets and chain restaurants. We care about what we eat.

Fork & Bottle also covers organic gardening, cooking with kids and, our explorations of Napa Valley/Sonoma County wine country. We welcome your feedback.
– Jack & Joanne






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Restaurant Reviews

 • Cyrus in Healdsburg, CA - Our fourth visit finally achieves the grand dining experience that our earlier visits only hinted at.

 • The Restaurant at Meadowood in Saint Helena, CA, was excellent and showed us clearly that they are one of the very best restaurants in the Napa Valley.

 • Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Santa Rosa has become our casual restaurant of choice. The food is always good to excellent, and there is a wonderful emphasis on local and sustainable ingredients. Bonus: The wine list features affordable organic and biodynamic wines.



Heirloom, Organic, & Biodynamic Seed Sources Heirloom Tomato Seedlings

Our Favorite Pages

 • Seed Sources - Heirloom, Organic, Biodynamic, Rare and Heritage sources for seeds.

 • Gingerbread Houses - How-to, Kits and Resources.

 • Biodynamic Wine Producers - simply the best list on the web for this very sustainable wine growing method.

 • Bonus Secrets of Wine Country - we live in wine country and share our secrets.
ips & Tricks


Great Cheese Finds

 • Tumin del Dian

 • Cahill's Porter      • Selles sur Cher

 • Seelander             • Timanoix

 • La Pierre Doree    • Abbaye de Tamie






Shepherd's Pie or Cottage Pie Recipe
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