With his book Artisanal Cocktails , local startender Scott Beattie established himself as a leading figure of West Coast-style, farmers-market-driven cocktail creation. And as the drink specialist at Healdsburg’s Cyrus , Scott has been a champion of building a high-end cocktail menu to match a high-end food establishment. Today’s multi-step recipe is, clearly, not for the unambitious. From Scott: Apples first show up at the Healdsburg farmers’ markets in late July but apple season la read the full article SFist Drinks: Autumn Apple Cocktail from Cyrusunratedadmin2009-10-16...
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Image by M@rg via Flickr Can you imagine a flower that is a source of all purpose essential oils for skin care, pain relief, wound healing, relief for burns and skin diseases, plus so much more? These are just some of the attributes of the attractive pleasant smelling purple colored flower known as lavender. The name Lavender is derived from the Latin word lavera meaning to wash, and has gained the reputation as possibly the greatest multipurpose source of natural essential oils ever found. Think for a moment that this is not some chemically produced substance, but a natural product...
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