Pizza and Zinfandel are truly a match made in heaven. Each can be indulgent and simply delicious, but together, hedonistic. Friday's are pizza night at my sister's place and good old Papa Murphy's gets a good share of her business. Indulgent describes nicely the family sized Cowboy Pizza we ordered recently: sausage and pepperoni, a thick crust and plenty of veggies.  A perfect match for Zinfandel. I opened up a 2006…

Ah, Pueblo style green chile. Pueblo, CO, my hometown is famous for their particular varietal of chile pepper; the Pueblo Green Chile a.k.a. Mira Sol. The chile tends to be larger than a jalapeño and smaller than a Anaheim. The thick flesh makes the chile perfect for roasting and its particular rich flavor is great for a chile stew.

We all know we have a surfeit of coffee shops in any town large enough support a stop light. There, we see coffee from around the world; places like Sumatra, Columbia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Guatemala… What do coffees from these regions taste like?