POSTED // Sep 4,2012 - Winemaker Carol Shelton’s recent visit to Salt Lake City afforded me the opportunity to sample some of her award-winning wines.

POSTED // Sep 3,2012 - Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill’s ninth- annual Chile Festival runs from Sept. 4 to Sept. 23 at the restaurant’s Gateway location, with an array of menu items featuring fresh New Mexico Hatch green chiles.

POSTED // Aug 28,2012 - Visiting Cline Cellars Winery and tasting room on the southern end of Sonoma, Calif.—it’s one of the first stops in wine country, in the Carneros appellation—is a real treat.

POSTED // Aug 28,2012 - Romina Rasmussen, Salt Lake City pastry chef and owner of Les Madeleine’s Patisserie, is the acknowledged queen of kouing-aman.

POSTED // Aug 27,2012 - On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Vida Tequila teams up with Frida Bistro (545 W. 700 South, FridaBistro.com) for a special limited-seating tequila-tasting dinner at 6:30 p.m.

POSTED // Aug 24,2012 - Solitude, in the time of Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones and laptops, can be hard to find—solitude with a small “s,” that is.

POSTED // Aug 21,2012 - Nicolitalia Pizzeria may seem small upon first glance, but it’s cozy with that local-pizzeria feel that’s hard to find out West.

POSTED // Aug 21,2012 - When the third-annual City Weekly Utah Beer Festival 2012 rolls into town, at the Gallivan Center on Aug. 26, attendees will have five hours—from 2 to 7 p.m.—to potentially sample some 85 different beers.

POSTED // Aug 20,2012 - Two longtime independent businesses in our community—Harmons Grocery and Weller Book Works—are collaborating with the monthly Harmons Bangerter Crossing Book Club.

POSTED // Aug 17,2012 - Wine geeks like to play the wine-and-food matching game. That’s where a specific wine or wine varietal (aka grape) teams up with a particular dish in the hope that each will bring out the best qualities of the other.