California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dead at 94 Robert Mondavi, the man hailed as the ambassador of the Napa Valley and the godfather of California wine, no longer owned the winery that bears his name when he died Friday at the age of 94.
Wasn't the unspoken promise of Chez Panisse that every neighborhood in America could have the same; a place where honest food was informed by local, seasonal ingredients and a humble, big-hearted chef?
Residents in an Oakland neighborhood grew tired of seeing the park median outside their homes grow nothing but weeds and troubles, so they got together with the city and remade the area into a lovely garden of natives.
Q: My wife is 41/2 months pregnant. For the past year or so I've had an "office girlfriend" — a single woman at my office who is fun to flirt and eat lunch with, but nothing more.
