Margit Mondavi described it as “opening the doors on a brave new world view.”

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Octavio Barrera, Matthew Steinhausen, Cuvée

Lauren Mickelsen

Dara Goldstein

Tara McHugh

In a past life, while working for the government, I developed a theory about brain capacity. After dozens of meetings that all seemed to involve learning how to fill out new, multi-part forms, I noticed a disturbing trend. My ability to conjugate French verbs was diminishing in direct correlation with the acquisition of knowledge about form 7029-A, part 1.

Some days I am just not in the running for the best parent award. Someone — I won’t say who — complains about anything and everything, throws a fit when it’s time for violin practice, or just plain woke up wrong … and by the time dinnertime rolls around, everyone’s cranky, I’m looking for the aspirin, and the last thing I want to do is invite any young person to hang out with me while I fix dinner, even the one I love.

What do you think of when you hear the word “curry?” According to Wikipedia, the Internet reference site, “Curry is the English description of any of a general variety of spicy dishes best known in India, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai and other South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines, though curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific region.”