Great food, wine, and music for perfect getaways at home! Chefs from 21 acclaimed inns and resorts offer more than 100 dishes for breakfast and dinner, all formatted for the home cook. Inspiring paintings, quotations, and photography will transport you to the wine country. The music CD offers brilliant performances by Grammy-Award winning musicians. Their joyful music combines classical, bluegrass, Latin, and jazz. To your health and happiness!
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Sharon O'Connor was the first person ever to pair a cookbook with music. What seems like a simple idea food and music are a natural combination is actually the culmination of years of life experience. As O'Connor puts it, Menus and Music has packaged up my life.
After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in music and sociology, O'Connor trained at the renowned Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. She began her career as a performer with the San Francisco Ballet and Opera and has worked with famed performers such as Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett and Linda Ronstadt. She has also recorded with the American Conservatory Theater, Aretha Franklin, John Williams, and for numerous Hollywood film scores. She continued her musical career as the founder and cellist of the San Francisco String Quartet.
A lifelong amateur chef, O'Connor began looking for a way to combine her loves for music, food, travel, and writing. Twelve years ago, while driving across the San Francisco Bay Bridge after a performance with her string quartet, she came up with the idea for Menus and Music.
Now, fourteen volumes later, O'Connor travels the world to research each cookbook and is an expert in adapting recipes from professional chefs for the home cook. Equal time is devoted to meeting with other musicians, mixing, arranging, editing, and performing the musical selections on the compact discs.
Sharon O'Connor makes her home in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two daughters and husband. Her family enthusiastically helps in the research, travel, and tasting for her series. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Tasting the Wine Country: Recipes from Romantic Inns and Resorts [With Music CD] (Paperback)
I gave this to my friend at Christmas and she loves it. It includes stories about the recipes and different wine regions in the country. My friend recently invited us over to try the bananas foster recipe by the original chef/creator. It was fabulous.
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Having vacationed at some of the inns featured in the book, I have enjoyed cooking recipes that take me back to such pleasurable memories! I am giving this book to two of my friends that love to cook. The friend that gave me the book for my birthday, did not purchase one for herself. I will gladly make sure she gets one! The dishes are authentic and not too fussy to actually cook and enjoy!
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Terrific gift!,
This review is from: Tasting the Wine Country: Recipes from Romantic Inns and Resorts [With Music CD] (Paperback)
The book is very well presented. I received this as a retirement gift and am looking forward to trying all the recipes. The music was very relaxing and perfect for sitting on the deck sipping a good glass of wine.
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Some of the first vineyards in North America were planted by Spanish missionaries who brought wagonloads of vines to California in order to satisfy the need for sacramental wine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following dinner menu, large ovenproof frying pan, medium howl, veal tenderloin, chipotle sauce, warmed plates, freshly ground pepper, large frying pan, tomato broth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Napa Valley, United States, Mike Marshall, Cabernet Sauvignon, Award of Excellence, Finger Lakes, North American, Russian River, Thomas Jefferson, Wine Spectator, Darol Anger, Glen Ellen, Long Island, New York, British Columbia, Santa Barbara, Walla Walla, Carmel Valley, Grand Marnier, San Francisco, Simpson House, Chateaux Association, Gaige House, Harbor House, Los Angeles New!
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Some of the first vineyards in North America were planted by Spanish missionaries who brought wagonloads of vines to California in order to satisfy the need for sacramental wine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following dinner menu, large ovenproof frying pan, medium howl, veal tenderloin, chipotle sauce, warmed plates, freshly ground pepper, large frying pan, tomato broth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Napa Valley, United States, Mike Marshall, Cabernet Sauvignon, Award of Excellence, Finger Lakes, North American, Russian River, Thomas Jefferson, Wine Spectator, Darol Anger, Glen Ellen, Long Island, New York, British Columbia, Santa Barbara, Walla Walla, Carmel Valley, Grand Marnier, San Francisco, Simpson House, Chateaux Association, Gaige House, Harbor House, Los Angeles New!
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- Napa Valley by California State Automobile Association on 4 pages
- Napa Valley, 4th: Land of Golden Vines (Hill Guides Series) by Kathleen Thompson Hill on 4 pages
- Santa Barbara County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 198, and Back Matter
- Ernest and Julio: Our Story by Ernest Gallo on page 17
- Finger Lakes Panoramas by Kristian S. Reynolds in Back Matter
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