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Our Favorite Summer Recipe:

Heirloom Tomato Soup

Joanne's Great Cheese Find:
Andante's Bel Canto

Joanne talks about Five Mistakes Parents make about Children’s Menus:
The Evolution of Kid Food, The Child Menu, Kid-friendly eating and its backlash…

Part two in the Dining out with Kids series.


Our return to Cyrus restaurant in Healdsburg

Restaurants in Victoria, BC & Sooke, BC:
More Notes from our October Trip:
In Victoria: Empress Hotel Tearoom,
Tea at Butchart Gardens, Cafe Brio,
and Red Fish Blue Fish


and in Sooke, BC:
Sooke Harbor House and Point No Point

Eating in Seattle, WA :
Notes from our October trip: Tilth, Serious Pie, Poppy & Elliot's Oyster House

Kids in 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

Forgotten Skills of Cooking:
Forgotten Skills of Cooking:
The Time-honoured Ways are the Best - Over 700 Recipes Show You Why
by Darina Allen
From the owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, this essential guide to traditional cookery skills offers over 700 recipes covering Dairy, Fish, Bread and Preserving. Forgotten Skills explains processes such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon, making yogurt and even eating food from the wild. The layout and lovely photography make Forgotten Skills a pleasure to read through.

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Highly Anticipated
Baking:

Tartine Bread
Tartine Bread
by Chad Robertson
with Eric Wolfinger (Photographer)
The highly anticipated bread bible from the venerable SF temple of bread.
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Flour Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery by Joanna Chang
Flour: A Baker's Collection of Spectacular Recipes
by Joanna Chang with Christie Matheson
From the heralded Boston Bakery - 150 recipes including, Brioche au Chocolat, Lemon Raspberry Cake, Homemade Pop Tarts, Milky Way Tart & Dried Fruit Focaccia. Plus Joanne's essential baking tips.
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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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Lobster Salad with Burrata at Bar Crudo in San Francisco


Restaurant Reviews

 • Tilth in Seattle, WA - If we were more local, we'd likely diner there monthly.

 • Poppy in Seattle, WA - Jerry Traunsfeld's restaurant adopts the Indian concept of the Thali. We loved it.

 • 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.



Biodynamic Natural & Organic Wine Producers
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.



Grise VolcansAndante's Bel Canto


Great Cheese Finds

 • Tumin del Dian

 • Cahill's Porter      • Selles sur Cher

 • Seelander             • Timanoix

 • La Pierre Doree
   • Abbaye de Tamie






Heirloom Tomato Soup with Bell Peppers & Basil - Recipe
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