What, exactly, does Central Coast Wine Blogs do?
What I do is make your dreams possible.
In fact, I may occasionally take you outside of your comfort zone and show you the possible.
For instance, when I met New York cookbook author Brigit Binns, who is also known in culinary circles as roadfoodie, I was instantly charmed. Who hasn't heard of roadfoodie, the sassy vixen who has documented her culinary travels across the US and around the world? Brigit is the author of 23 cookbooks, including some gorgeous Williams Sonoma selections. When I met her last month she was working hard on a couple of cookbook drafts and taking a month-long hiatus in Paso Robles to relax and finish her recipe testing. But her current dream is to write a cookbook inspired by the central coast, where she spent many glorious summers as a child.
To help her achieve that goal, I introduced her to some wineries and local food artisans. But I really wanted her to experience our culinary connection to the land, so I even went so far as to set up a boar hunt for us. Dubost Ranch Winery kindly hooked us up with professional guide Matt Tupen ([email protected]) and we had the time of our lives.
From roadfoodie.com, What a Boar:
"I am standing underneath a scarred, ancient oak tree on an isolated ranch far to the west of Paso Robles, in central California, with a dead body, a blond woman, and a strange man—I first laid eyes on him five minutes ago—who is holding a very, very sharp knife. 'It’s a surgical blade,' he says, with disarming cheer."
"The dead body is a 200-pound wild boar, the man is a hunter, and the blond woman is Mary Baker, of Central Coast Wine Blogs; she has opened doors for me in this wine community that I might otherwise have spent months—if not years—knocking on."
You might think that sliding around in the mud in an ATV and learning to skin a boar with a surgical knife is not a typical woman's idea of fun. And you'd probably be right. But we loved it And the boar (pictured above) was parceled out lovingly to local foodies. In Brigit's hands, he became a delicious and robust cassoulet, which she proclaimed a 'Passoulet', and it was served with Paso Robles syrah and cabernet.
So when you ask me what Central Coast Wine Blogs does, my reply would be . . .
I help you realize your dreams. Whatever you want to achieve, I can take you there and beyond.
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