What a feast!!! We were celebrating our friend's birthday over the weekend of July 4, and made this delicious meal for about 25 people. We had a huge Paella pan with a freestanding heating element for outdoors, and cooked the night away in our friends' garage. How's that for true Americana!! Our Paella had all the fixins....chicken, chorizo, onions, scallops, shrimp, clams, peas, tomato. You name it, we had it in there! We drank some fun wines, of course....some bright, fresh

An evening last week, I prepared a rather elaborate and intimate food and wine pairing dinner for some friends. I marinated both pork and chicken in different ingredients to emphasize each protein's affinities with the various wines I chose. I served alongside the meats four sauces, two for each meat. Some grilled mushrooms, roasted onions and baked figs with a fig Balsamic vinaigrette and goat cheese to round out the meal worked nicely. I served two whites and two reds to sh