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Feet First

Napa County

Server Size-Up

Our evil little guide to who's passing the plates

• by Ella Lawrence

Township Terroir

Yountville

Road Rules

Tomato-Based Philosophy

Plummy thoughts on the red fruit

First Bite

Finnegan's Marin

• by David Sason

Cooking Up a Getaway

Other tricks to the trade

Communal Eating

Community supported agriculture comes right to your door

• by Ella Lawrence

Five Fruits

Talk Talk

Conversation as comedy in 'Scoop' and 'Clerks 2'

• by Richard von Busack

Car Culture

My First Sting: Fighting crime--one soda drinker at a time

• by Novella Carpenter

Owl Ridge Wines

• by Daedalus Howell

Schug Carneros Estate Winery

• by Daedalus Howell

Bo Bo Ga Ga

Arcadia runs the gamut from bucolic paradise to bourgeois bohemian

Far Niente

• by Ella Lawrence

Start Your Wining

Wine bars cover the North Bay like grapevines. Here are some more for your swiftly budding palate

• by David Sason