After several months of planning, designing and remodeling, Elements Restaurant & Enoteca will open at 1400 Second St. on Sept. 1. Rich Poliak, Chef Charles Weber and Noel Burke have teamed up to open the new restaurant.

For most of his life, Carlos Villaseñor has sold and prepared food for wine country residents with a taste for la cocina Mexicana.

Silverado Resort is once again hosting Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation Napa Valley and Golf Tournament Aug. 25.

An organization I belong to is gathering at my house next week. In preparation for the potluck that is part of the meeting, one of the members casually asked me if I’d have my grill going.

My best friend Claudia and I just returned from a trans-Atlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2. The captain informed us that the fuel cost for the one-way voyage was $1 million. My gas bill pales in comparison, but I, like everyone else, am feeling the crunch of rising fuel costs across the board. It’s taking big bites out of my grocery bills too.

History, agriculture and the Berbers, Morocco’s earliest indigenous inhabitants, have all joined to produce one of the world’s greatest cuisines.