Charo performs at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville tomorrow, Friday, September 10. For tickets and more info visit: http://www.lincolntheater.com
Thursday, September 9, 2010
CHARO: Cuchi-Cuchi to Concert Guitarist
Charo performs at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville tomorrow, Friday, September 10. For tickets and more info visit: http://www.lincolntheater.com
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Categories: Musician Interviews
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Vino & Harvest Updates
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Categories: winemaker interview
Run Hombre Run! - Barefoot Running & the Tarahumara Indians from Mexico's Copper Canyon
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Categories: Author Inteview
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Ed Stafford - Amazon Explorer - MIA!!
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wine Country con Sabor! Thursday 8/26 - Amazonian Feat & Mexican Wings
I'm excited about my guests on tomorrow's show!
Can you imagine yourself walking in the Amazon jungle for 2-1/2 years?! Well Ed Stafford did just that! On August 9 he became the first person known to walk the entire length of the 4000 mile river from it’s source in Peru to the Atlantic shores of Brazil. Stafford took 859 days to walk and hack his way through dense jungle, passing through illegal cocaine processing plants, staying with indigenous tribes, crisscrossing logging roads and navigating his way to the end via Google Earth. On the longest jungle expedition ever undertaken, Stafford walked through 3 countries; Peru, Colombia and Brazil repeatedly risking his life in his quest to raise awareness of deforestation. He'll talk to us about his experience and how he and his guide Gadiel ‘Cho’ Sanchez Rivera stayed on course - physically and mentally.
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Categories: Business, Radio Show, Travel
Thursday, August 19, 2010
More to MOLAA Than You Know
I hope you enjoyed my other guest on today's show, President and CEO Richard P. Townsend of the Museum of Latin American Art. It was fascinating to talk to him about how MOLAA has grown so much in about 15 years! Here is more info on the upcoming and rare David Alfaro Siqueiros exhibit. So worth booking a cheap flight on Southwest and making it a weekend trip!
This exhibition, the first of its kind to be presented anywhere, includes approximately half of the 150 landscape paintings that Siqueiros produced during his lifetime. “This is the most significant exhibition of Siqueiros to be seen in the last ten years,” stated MACG Director and exhibition curator Itala Schmelz. “It is the result of more than three years of collaboration that included the precedent-setting gathering of artwork from more than 20 different museum and private collections in Mexico and the U.S., scholarly research by Christopher Fulton and additional research by a team of nine talented catalogue essayists.”
Featuring a selection of the most important landscape paintings and drawings, the exhibition reveals Siqueiros’ dynamic vision of futuristic cities, allegorical places and the environment. Utilizing an explosive color palette and experimental techniques, the landscape imagery is charged with the emotions of creation and destruction always present in the art of Siqueiros. “Traditionally landscape paintings offer views of idyllic vistas, but these landscapes offer scenes of a troubled world,” said MOLAA Senior Curator, Cynthia Mac Mullin. “The gathered works poignantly emphasize Siqueiros’ concern for humanity’s inability to serve its fellow men. Although several paintings are about the past, such as The End of the World from 1936 painted in response to the Spanish Civil War and The Explosion of Hiroshima of 1955, protesting the inhumane ending World War II, they are still relevant today, mirroring humanity’s constant engagement with war and destruction.”
Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
September 12, 2010 - January 2011
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Puttin' the PUDIN in Vegan
Special gracias to my guest Vegan Chef Terry Hope Romero. Here is a tasty and delicioso vegan dessert recipe she's sharing with all our Wine Country con Sabor!/KVON listeners. It's from her new cookbook, VIVA VEGAN! 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers. Pick-up the book or check out her website - veganlatina.com for more info and recipes.
FRESH MANGO AND GUAVA BREAD PUDIN
• Serves 6 to 8 • Time: About 1 hour
Bread pudding gets a lot of love in Latin America. Latin bread pudding is dense and firm enough to hold its own shape like a slice of cake, while being as sweet as a smile. This Caribbean-inspired version has strips of aromatic guava paste and slices of fresh mango baked into the top crust. I love pudÌn served warm with a scoop of ice cream, but if you find yourself eating spoonfuls straight from the fridge, that’s just as well, too.
Tip: Guava paste is a chewy, ultrasweet fruity confection made from guavas and sugar cooked down forever. It comes in round tins or blocks, sometimes wrapped in dried banana leaf (look for bocadillos of paste). Guava paste sometimes includes milk caramel (you’ll see tan layers in the paste), so read the ingredients to make sure it’s completely cowless. For easier slicing,
try chilling guava paste first.
1 pound day-old good-quality vegan white bread, cut or torn into small chunks
2⁄3 cup granulated sugar
1⁄4 cup light brown sugar
1⁄2 cup dark raisins
1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
31⁄2 cups soy milk or favorite rich nondairy milk
1 (3 by 1-inch) strip lemon or orange zest
3 tablespoons nonhydrogenated vegan margarine
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons dark or spiced rum
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
5 ounces guava paste, sliced into thin strips
1 large ripe mango
1. Lightly grease a 9 by 11 by 2-inch baking pan. Place the bread pieces in a large mixing bowl. Add the granulated and light brown sugar, raisins, and cinnamon, and toss together. Set aside 1/2 cup of the soy milk in a measuring cup and pour the remaining 3 cups of soy milk into a large saucepan. Add the orange zest and, over medium heat, simmer the milk for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the margarine and stir to melt. Remove the orange zest and pour the hot soy milk over the bread mixture. Using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, fold the ingredients to completely moisten the bread. Set the mixture aside and let it cool for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. The bread will fall completely apart and will be very mushy and wet. While the bread mixture is cooling, preheat the oven to 375_F.
2. Into the remaining 1/2 cup of soy milk in the measuring cup, whisk the cornstarch, rum, and vanilla until smooth. Pour onto bread mixture and mix thoroughly. Pour into the prepared baking pan and top with strips of guava paste and strips of mango, poking them partially into the
pudding. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned; the guava paste will melt and bubble and the mango will brown. A knife inserted into the center of the pudding should come out mostly clean (a few sticky crumbs are okay). The pudding will be like molten lava right out of the oven, so let it cool for at least 15 minutes before cutting and serving.
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