The Poco Dolce Tour of the California Coast
Barbara and I set off on Monday for Pt. Reyes, a coastal town that's been able to keep it's rural roots with the help of Marin Organic and the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. We spent four days in a wooden house perched on a cliff, surrounded by photographs from a book project called Mothering in the West. We didn't have much reason to leave, but we took the occasional drive through dairy country (we visited the Straus family farm, mentioned in my interview with Chuck Siegel on Culinate this week) and Pinot Noir country to the west of the Russian River (the Hartford Family Winery required no reservation). And Kathy Wiley's Poco Dolce chocolate tiles (understated squares of Guittard couverture surrounding Aztec spices or burnt caramel and flecked with grey sea salt) showed up in Occidental (at Sonoma Fine Wine) and Graton (at Far West Trading Company), two small-town oases in the wilderness.
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Love that photo!
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