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These Oregon Wines Deserve a Place at Your Holiday Table

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“This is the place where the best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are grown in the New World,” enthuses Chris Hermann from my laptop’s Zoom window, followed by a sip of his winery’s “VGW,” an abbreviation for Very Good White. Hermann is the founder of award-winning 00 Wines located in Carlton, Oregon. While Napa owns the spotlight on most domestic wine lists, Oregon wineries like 00, one of several hundred in the region, are attracting both domestic and international attention for good reason. The cooler climates in the Willamette Valley make it ideal for growing fickle Pinot Noir grapes and Chardonnay — so much so that even Burgundian winemakers are purchasing property and cultivating grapes in its foothills. Moreover, while climate change has pushed Napa and Sonoma to higher temperatures with marked impacts on the alcohol content and character of the region’s famous wines, Oregon wines have benefited from the recent…

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How Mindfulness Can Turn Cooking Into Quality Time

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I didn’t feel confident about my cooking until my late twenties. My two young kids thought that meals were supposed to come out in stages, depending on what came out of the oven or off the stove first. And there were many nights we improvised with breakfast foods when dinner was a flop. While my own cooking has come a long way, it doesn’t surprise me that one in four American adults don’t know how to cook. Since 2015, we’ve been collectively spending more money eating out than on groceries, even though it’s three times as expensive as cooking. Anyone who’s ordered a pizza lately knows you don’t get many slices for an hour of wages, and to make it worse, all that money is turning around precious little nutrients. Cooking at home stretches the budget, and also means you know what’s in your food. Working with whole and mostly plant-based ingredients…

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