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Personal Sommelier Online - October 2010

Harvest in Northern California is late this year, and not just in wine country. Our rooftop garden in San Francisco barely saw the sun for all of June, July and August, an all-time low that was extraordinary, even for the famously un-summery City by the Bay. But thanks to a burst of sun in late August and September, we expect to be eating tomatoes throughout October. Better late than never!

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Food-Pairing Friday: Tomato Tarts

Gorgeous two-bite-sized tomato tarts. Photo courtesy of White on Rice Couple.

Back in my poetry-writing days I wanted to start a literary journal called celoso, the Spanish word for jealousy. The journal would only publish poetry that was so good that it pissed me off, not for what it said, but for the fact that I had not written it myself. While these days I prefer my poetry bottled ("Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth") I still love the concept of celoso. Todd Porter and Diane Cu, better known as White on Rice Couple, have that kind of blog. And if the stories, recipes and mouthwatering photos weren't enough to bring out your little green-eyed monster, their garden will.

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