| Sipping, Eating, Doing | Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco lie the rolling hills and tree-shaded country lanes of California’s fastest-growing wine region. Paso Robles—designated an American Viticultural Area, or AVA, since 1983 and home to 180+ wineries. This is idyllic, laid-back Green Wine Country where the owner or winemaker may personally pour [...]
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| Greening in Atotonilquillo | And now for some good news from Mexico…again this year, the annual harvest celebration in a farming pueblo near Jalisco‘s Lake Chapala is coming off without a hitch. Here in the town plaza the crowds are happy and well fed, the most wizened abuelas to the youngest niños. The vendors are handing out samples and [...]
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| Greening in PV | It’s mango mania around Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s central Pacific coast. Everywhere—mangoes, mangoes, mangoes. Awash in mangoes. Un problema fantastico! In the early mornings where we’re staying, first I skim a flotilla of delicate coconut palm flowers floating in the pool, and scoop out chlorinated land crabs big as salad plates, up to [...]
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| Greening in Cambodia | When I last visited Cambodia, in 1995, the country was devastated from years of unspeakably brutal civil war and armed regional conflicts. The magnificent architectural ruins at Angkor Wat, a UN World Heritage site, had only recently reopened to the public. These ancient temples ensnared by the jungle’s tendrils, often referred to as [...]
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| Red Is Green | Over and over, when we mention we are off to the Riviera Nayarit, we hear, “Oh, Sayulita! The coolest Mexican beach town. You gotta check it out.” And we do. And we aren’t the only ones. Even in sultry late June, at the start of the muggy, wet summer season, Sayulita is humming along, its [...]
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| Lake Chapala Paraíso | The air in early June is brittle, hot and dusty, but the shrill serenade of the rainbirds heralds the change that’s to come. Rainbirds are not birds at all, actually, but the local name for thousands of huge cicada-like insects that faithfully appear each year at this time, brilliant green to satisfy the Mexican love of [...]
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| A Mendo Wowie | There’s no mistaking the green of Mendocino. We don’t mean the color, of course, though the moods of this Northern California coastline transform ordinary chlorophyll into a pulsating emerald-on-acid. No, we mean our kind of green. And fellow green travelers, here in Mendo you just let out a big sigh [...]
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| Not Rice-a-Roni | It’s Rainbow Grocery. The greenest and greatest grocery and general store in Northern California, if not the entire galaxy. Its solar-powered location in SOMA (South of Market), in the shadow of the 101 freeway overpass, sure ain’t glitzy. There’s always a homeless guy peddling the Street Sheet (a newspaper put out [...]
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| Meet Mr. Delicious | On the Big Island of Hawaii, the fiery, lava-spitting Big Kahunas of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park draw awe-struck visitors from around the world. Only a mile from the park, in mystical Volcano Village, there awaits another unstoppable force of nature. His name is Ira Ono. That’s what he calls himself [...]
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| Oaxaca Gets It | Now we know why Oaxaca City, capital of Oaxaca state, is known far and wide as the food mecca of Mexico. The art of Mexican cuisine is revered here, savored slowly, with home cooks and restaurant chefs zealously guarding personal secrets for moles (they make 7 major kinds here) and [...]
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