Cilantro and chili peppers are just a few ingredients that will impart their aromas into the brisk air enveloping the Sologne neighborhood in Chenal Valley this month.

The former lounge of a Best Western may not be the first place one would expect to find a top-notch Italian restaurant headed by a chef whose reputation for quality precedes him.

Great wine isn’t produced in California, or so it was thought in France in the year of our country’s bicentennial.