When Life Gives You Olives…

I promised you tasting notes a couple of weeks ago for the Sylverleaf Estate Organic and the Foothills Blend…  Well, this lovely head cold/flu that is going around got around. It has completely destroyed my senses of smell and taste, albeit on a temporary basis. As soon as I have all of my tasting abilities back to normal, I’ll have the official 2010 Tasting Notes here on the Sylverleaf blog.

Thanks for your patience!

For my final post of the day (I promise), I’d like to wish one of Sylverleaf’s favorite chefs good luck! The San Francisco Chronicle’s Inside Scoop has this to say:

“At Ame (689 Mission St.), executive chef Greg Dunmore will leave the kitchen Oct. 21. The 2006 Chronicle Rising Star chef says he’s pursuing his own venture, but says, “I can’t talk about it until I know that it’s a done deal.”

In the meantime, he plans to fill in as a guest chef around town and take some hard-earned vacation time. He’s been working at Ame since the restaurant opened in the St. Regis Hotel in 2005.”

We’ll miss this awesome chef and wish him “Olive the Best!”

Waking up to a very smoky morning, again. The fire up in Dobbins has grown to over 3,200 acres and won’t be fully contained for days. Here’s to all the firefighter’s hard work and to their safety. Being a Fire Chief’s daughter, I have ultimate respect for the job. But being a firefighter in Cape Cod, MA. is a whole lot different than dealing with the terrain of the Yuba County foothills. My thoughts go out to those evacuated from their homes, the young and old dealing with the heavy smoke and all the poor innocent animals involved with this fire. My fingers are crossed that Mother Nature keeps the wind at bay…