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Tuna Salad, Then and Now

July 24, 2013 Maria Stuart 4 Comments

Someone asked recently “What’s your earliest food memory?” I was able to nail it pretty quickly – tuna fish salad. I was about 2 1/2 years old and we were living in a temporary (furnished?) apartment in Jacksonville, Florida. My Dad – then working for Ford Motor Company – had been transferred from Michigan to […]

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Why We Do What We Do

December 18, 2012 Maria Stuart 10 Comments

Why We Do What We Do

Last week I was thinking about the meals I cook for our harvest crew every year, and how I really ought to write about why we do that.  Why this week? In mid-December? After all, harvest is already more than a month behind us, the harvest workers have gone home and we are all back […]

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What’s a Tweet Up?

July 6, 2012 Maria Stuart 1 Comment

Twitter has been an enigma to me.  I know I’m supposed to know all things social media, but Twitter uses a different language. Not just shorthand (limit my thoughts to just 140 characters!?!) but it seems so foreign! The @ symbol and the #hashtag, retweeting and following. Oh my goodness, my head is full enough […]

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Hi, I'm Maria. My husband and I own a winery in downtown McMinnville, the heart of Oregon's spectacular Willamette Valley.

Lucky for me I get to cook for the people I love, throw parties and pour a little Pinot. Nothing makes me happier than gathering people around my table and serving them food that nourishes both body and soul.

People often tell me that I'm living their dream life. And truthfully, I'm living mine too.

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