When it comes to easy dinners, the trick is to keep the good taste while refining your recipe's ingredients down to a few well-chosen components that work really well together.

Now that the holidays are over, how about giving yourself a present? This weekend, visit the nearest good wine store and buy a bottle of Cote-Rotie, from the northern part of the Rhone Valley of France. You won't find this everywhere, and it will probably cost around $50, but you've earned it. Prepare a big meal, let the wine breathe a little, pour, drink -- and, finally, relax. The presents are open; the relatives are gone. This is your time.

New wine releases next month at Krug

Just as winemakers blend grapes from different lots to achieve a ideal result, so are architects at work combining tradition and innovation, agriculture, technology, production and hospitality to create today's wineries.

Napa vintner Dennis Cakebread is finally sending out cases of wine to thirsty New York state customers, seven long months after a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for the shipments.

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Winter Evenings

When a respected chef offers to share his or her cooking techniques and tips as well as treasured recipes, local foodies do more than sit up and take notice.

Tortilla de Patatas

Potatoes la Didier

Persimmon Cookies