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sallybernstein.com · eNewsletter · July, 2005

What's New

In July our thoughts turn to summer fun! With the children out of school and vacations galore, summer is a time to relax, read a good book on the beach or by the pool and cook outdoors.

July is also berry season, with a myriad of choices from strawberries to blueberries to blackberries to olalliberries to marionberries to boysenberries to loganberries to raspberries to tayberries. Enjoy these 2 Sally’s Place articles:

It's Berry Season
Learn about caneberries, bush berries and rhizome runners with recipes for Cranberry Jam and Blackberry Pie with Fresh Berry Sauce.

Blueberries: "A Most Excellent Summer Dish"
Betty Fussell chronicles the sundry past of this misnamed fruit with a Blueberry Summer Pudding recipe.

Sally's Weblog

Sally adds to her weblog daily so be sure and check it our for the latest food, wine & travel news.

Accolades

David Leite is a New Yorker who has an excellent food website called Leite’s Culinaria. He showcases cookbooks, recipes and food writing. I’m proud to say that Sally’s Place has recently been added to his Resources page, written by JJ Goode:

"On Sally's Place, Editor-in-Chief Sally Bernstein has compiled an enormous amount of information to help you navigate the daunting culinary world. The site has tips on the best new books, dining guides for almost every major city in the US, and travel pieces written by Sally's troupe of contributing writers, who take you to Jamaica for jerk, Thailand for noodles, and Italy for prosciutto. Given a choice between traveling with GPS and Sally's Place, we'd go with the one that makes our mouths water." www.leitesculinaria.com

Summer Cooking Class

On Wednesday, July 13th Sally will give a cooking class at Draeger’s in San Mateo, California: Easy and Elegant Hors’d Oeuvres includes Almond-Crusted Seared Tuna served with Toasted Cumin-Tomato Sauce; Grilled Honey-Caper Shrimp; Crispy Sautéed Grape Leaf Packages filled with Mozzarella Cheese and Serrano Ham; Lamb Meatballs with Pine Nuts and Mint and Savory Cream Cheese; and Chevre Cheesecake. $75.00--650.685.3704

Sally has 2 more Ferry Building Marketplace tours in San Francisco

Sally and Ramekins Sonoma Valley Culinary School have booked these tour dates for summer: Tuesday, July 12th; and Tuesday, August 2nd. Sally's Ferry Building Marketplace Tour costs $85 (including a three-course seated lunch at MarketBar). To register, call Ramekins Sonoma Valley Culinary School at 707-933-0450 or register online.

New Articles

Business Travel Walter Reisender offers airline, hotel, and restaurant news as well as words of warning and a joke.

Wake Up and Eat the Flowers—But Please Leave the Centerpiece Alone by Robin Donovan tells us what flowers we can and cannot eat! A hint: enjoy nasturtiums, lavender, and dandelions. Three recipes, Wildflower Salad, Warm Lavender-Scented Goat Cheese Soufflés and Beer Battered Dandelion Fritters, are included.

Another addition to our popular Ethnic Section is African Americans:African American cuisine predominant in the southern United States is influenced by African styles of preparation and cooking.

Monty Preiser bring us Part 1 of The Rhone Valley in California as part of his "It's Time for Wine" continuing series.

Monty Preiser bring us Part 2 of The Rhone Valley in California as part of his "It's Time for Wine" continuing series.

Monty Preiser bring us Part 3 of The Rhone Valley in California as part of his "It's Time for Wine" continuing series.

Italian Soups: Anna Maria Volpi says soups in Italy are as diverse as the Italian regions, and the Italians say: "Tell me what soup you eat, and I will tell you where you come from." Three soup recipes are featured including Pasta e Patate or Potato Soup, Risi e Bisi or Rice and Peas Soup, and Minestrone or Vegetable Soup.

This spring Whole Foods Market, the world's leading natural and organic food supermarket, opened a landmark store in Austin, Texas, their world headquarters. Read Sally's account of this fantastic store where you can spend the day!

We feature Portugal in our popular ethnic section: "Coming Home to Lisbon," David Leite tells us about going home, as his father was born in Portugal. He explores the old and new of Portugal's capital, and discovers a revitalized city to call his own.

Enjoy Venice, Italy — Tales of the River Po by Keith Allan & Lynne Gray, who board a 44 cabin river barge in Venice for a week of cruising the River Po and into the Veneto.

Top Seven African Safaris: "For an experience truly moving and exhilarating, profound and spiritual: a safari to that wondrous part of the planet would prove to be an adventure of a lifetime," says Claudia Foleng-Achunche.

Sally Recommends

Food411.com
This a unique & valuable resource for food enthusiasts - wonderful
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Strategic Business Thinking
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Gifts for Professionals
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Culinary Schools
If you've been swept up by the recent culinary craze and are looking to earn your degree in the industry, then you should check out www.culinary-school-finder.com. Search culinary schools by state, city, school, or career to find the culinary program that best suits you. You'll quickly gain the culinary training you need and be on your way to running your own kitchen, managing your own hotel, creating the perfect pastry, or any other culinary career that you choose.

Cheap Premium Tickets
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MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant
The Mendocino Music Festival, http://www.mendocinomusic.com/ is July 12 th --23 rd. Most of the concerts are in the big tent on the Headlands but the MacCallum House is hosting one afternoon concert on their lawn, Thursday, July 21 st at 3 PM: Sonatina Flute & Strings, from Early Music to Celtic Songs.

As a benefit to help save the music in Mendocino schools David Grisman Quintet will play on Sunday, July 24 th at 7 PM as an encore to the music festival.

The MacCallum House Restaurant has a new summer menu. Think COMANCHE CREEK HEIRLOOM TOMATOES ‘BLT’ SALAD with house made mozzarella, applewood smoked bacon, microgreens, Stella Cadente olive oil, balsamic drizzle, and herb croutes, the AHI TUNA is black pepper encrusted, seared rare with butter lettuce, brown butter, dry-cured olive, tapenade, roasted potatoes and a HAZELNUT MASCARPONE SOUFFLE with chocolate sauce for dessert.

Chicago Hotel Deals
The end of summer is a great time to visit Chicago.  Festivals, Events, Architecture and more.  Find great Chicago Hotel Deals.

Gustiamo
A unique source for authentic and hard-to-find Italian foods made steering away from industrial methods, Gustiamo.com offers a large variety of carefully selected artisanal foods from all regions of Italy. Gustiamo's selection includes single durum wheat artisanal pasta, Bluefin tuna in olive oil, award winning olive oils from small Italian estates, gianduja (chocolate and hazelnut) chocolates and much more. All products can easily be ordered online and are delivered in 24 hours anywhere in the United States."

July Is

July 1: Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
July 4: Independence Day US
July 7: Chocolate Day; National Strawberry Sundae Day
July 14: Bastille Day – France
July 17: Ice Cream Day; Peach Ice Cream Day
July 20: National Lollipop Day
July 23: Hot Dog Day; National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
July 28: National Milk Chocolate Day

Happy July,

Sally Bernstein
Editor in Chief
sallybernstein.com
sally@sallybernstein.com

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