The Spring 2010 Alternative Season!

Hold on to your wine glasses everyone because colorandaroma is going places where no wine magazine has ever gone before.
We will be elegantly blending wine, art, music and entertainment from March 20 through June 20, 2010!
Stay tuned for our special guest contributors…
Cheers,
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To Pair or Not to Pair Is Not the Question. The Question Is How?

To Pair or Not to Pair Is Not the Question. The Question Is How?
Pass the Cheese Please!
Experts talk about wine and cheese
by Dennis Myers
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English journalist and writer born in the 19th Century, once rued, “The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”  Fast-forward to today’s culinary scene and [...]

Microgreens: the caviar of greens

Intense: Smaller vegetables reliably deliver more flavor than larger ones. It’s the same with greens.
Various: Basil, beet, radish, arugula, kale, chives, chervil, broccoli, carrot, wasabi, pea, sunflower, dill, fennel, cilantro, chard, etc.
Beautiful: As if a still life came to life in chlorophyll—sprightly colors and textures like impressionistic paint strokes.
Versatile: Provide a bed for a warm [...]

Coffee Beans and Wine Grapes: Related Passions of the Palate

Aside from the obvious differences, coffee and wine have a lot in common. For one thing, you can’t always have as much as you would like without a side effect. Too much coffee might make you a bit twitchy. But you can drink as much as you like of the strongest coffee in the world [...]

Martin Diedrich: A Passion for Coffee

Just before Thanksgiving 2008, Martin Diedrich invited me to come by his coffee house in Newport Beach to sample his newly roasted coffees.
The name should be familiar:  Martin Diedrich founded Diedrich’s Coffee, the late, lamented chain of coffee shops absorbed last year by Starbucks.  Gladly freed from a corporate association, Diedrich has founded a new [...]