February 2011

Easy Chocolate Recipes to Make at Home

Everyone loves chocolate on Valentine's Day! Delight your kids, your sweetie or yourself with these recipes from favorite TV chefs.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Other Great Reads

Local personalities offer up book ideas for chilly winter days

By Jeanne Steinmann

Interview with Adriene Rockwell

Local grant-writer finds funds for the arts. Photo by Nicolas P. Josephs

Sue Sumner-Moore

Fragrance That Is Heaven Sent

Celebrity endorsement translates movie glamour into fragrance

Christina Strawbridge

Chocolate Lovers Rejoice! Options Abound in Benicia

A blind tasting yields interesting insights to both chocolate and city leaders

Jeanne Steinmann

Gluten Free Goes Mainstream

Beth Steinmann

Real Estate: Sellers Get Real, Buyers See Value

Eric Hoglund, Estey Real Estate

Oscar Nominees: The Wisdom of Ten

Samuel J. Adams

Food of the Gods: The History, Cultivation and Making of Chocolate

The history, lore and making of chocolate

by Beth Steinmann

Looking Back: 40 Years of Benicia Photographs

Mary Marino