So many old and new wines, amazing flavors, fascinating stories and interesting people at the Wine & Spirits Mag Drink+Eat event!

Flavors of Mexico. #Ensenada #Summer

Mexican wine? I am in! Santo Tomas winery has some interesting wines to taste at its tasting room in Ensenada.

I know he is only doing his job, but it’s so nice when the waiter calls me by my name every evening at the dinner table on the cruise ship😌.

So excited to ba on LAist with Gab Chabrán and Susanne Whatley Tune in tomorrow at 7:45am on FM89.3 to learn everything about BBQ culture in SoCal and beyond!

My first piece for ⁦LAist⁩! We got everyone, from pit masters, book author to food historian. Thank you ⁦Gab Chabrán⁩ for commissioning. laist.com/news/food/the-…

Painful beyond words…

Students and volunteers in Goris helping forcibly displaced Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. Saw this picture on Facebook and it put a big smile on my face to know how many people and grassroots put extra effort to try to be helpful to Karabakh Armenians.

I always wanted to write about this! Thank you Clive Pursehouse and Decanter for the assignment! decanter.com/learn/los-ange…

I am so grateful for the opportunity to write about one of the most exciting projects in the wine world for ⁦⁦L.A. Times Food⁩ ! Cheers! ⁦SOMM TV ®⁩ latimes.com/food/story/202…

I was so lucky to taste the amazing goodies that @roseandrye bake in their home-kitchen and to learn their beautiful story! So grateful for L.A. Times Food for commissioning! Betty Hallock latimes.com/food/story/202….

My article ⁦L.A. Times Food⁩ is in today’s print🥰. ⁦SOMM TV ®⁩

Brilliant piece by Felicity Carter ! This is going to be a long fight, and the problem is that these groups are against en entire culture that survived more than 6 thousand years!

Met with one of my editors ⁦Betty Hallock⁩ and columnist Jenn Harris at L.A. Times Festival if Books! Check out ⁦L.A. Times Food⁩ booth for great cookbooks and so many other things!

When the same reputable magazine rejects my pitches-twice, and then couple a months later assigns them to someone else, it says a lot about the publication, right? Talking about #journalisticintegrity 😔 Oh, and I worked a lot with this magazine before!

The entire time that I was working on this piece, I was going through the pain and helplessness of what we all went through in 2020 and are still going until today. I am grateful to @matthewjkaner publishing it! mensjournal.com/wine/lost-wine…

Story of loss, survival and hope! The feelings are bittersweet, to say the least…

It’s not easy to write about anything related to Artsakh. It’s even harder to talk about it. I did my best to tell only a part of the story. Please take a listen. So grateful to ⁦⁦SOMM TV ®⁩ and ⁦Jason Wise⁩ for this opportunity! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/som…

My new sweetest guid of 10 #Armenianbakeris in LA is L.A. Times Food ! Thank you to Danielle Dorsey for great edits! Enjoy😉 latimes.com/food/list/best…