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...topics as food preparation, food presentation, business aspects of the industry and industry terminology. Classes are six-hour morning or afternoon sessions, given over a four-or five-day period. This schedule leaves students time to explore the nearly 500 wineries and numerous gourmet restaurants in Napa and neighboring Sonoma counties. Tuition ranges from $725 to $995. About 30% of the continuing-education students are 50 or older, notes Diana Delonis, education-program manager at Greystone...
...genteel practice of monogramming has gone beyond fine linens and towels. Now consumers are slapping their initials--or those of spouses, friends, even pets--on their sandals, toenails and cocktails. "Anytime you can personalize something, it elevates it," says Donata Maggipinto, culinary director of Williams-Sonoma, which has upped its line of monogrammable products 15% this year. Last year Los Angeles Victoria's Secret stores offered monogramming of initials and other symbols on bras and panties; it was such a hit that last month the chain made the service available nationwide. Barneys' brisk-selling lettered cashmere sweaters, introduced last year...
Most people, when they are cleaning their houses, aren't also looking to cleanse their souls. But taking their cue from the popularity of citrus soaps and berry body lotions, designer-housewares stores such as Williams-Sonoma and the Terence Conran Shop are offering household-cleaning products--dishwashing soaps, floor cleaners and countertop sprays--infused with essences fit for a Zen retreat. Consumers can choose among scrubs that smell like green-tea patchouli, citrus-mint ilang-ilang or basil lemon verbena. For the most part, the earth-friendly cleansers are "plant derived," meaning they don't contain man-made substances...
...sous-chef--bought into a cheesemaker, Egg Farm Dairy. Later came Astra Ridge water and Charlie Palmer Steak. Most recently, the group has taken points in Astra West, a restaurant-catering operation to open this fall in Los Angeles, and the Hotel Healdsburg/Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen in Sonoma County, Calif., scheduled for the summer...
...brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman Marcus. "Dealing with change in a family business--everything's personal. It's about money-equals-love, and who threw up on the piano when you were three years...