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IAN BLACKBURN – WINE LA: STARS OF SANTA BARBARA EVENT THIS WEDNESDAY ABOUT STARS OF SANTA BARBARA January 18, 2017 Leica Store and Gallery 8783 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048 Dedicated to keeping the populous current on the developments growing out of Santa Barbara, this Annual Tasting Event features the namesakes, owners, winemakers pouring some of the best wine made in California. Long before Sideways, LearnAboutWine was bullish about the quality of Santa Barbara wine. Today, with the continued evolution of Santa Barbara we see Santa Rita Hills and Santa Maria focusing on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos and specifically Ballard Canyon focusing on Syrah and Rhone varieties and Happy Canyon focusing on Bordeaux varietals. Santa Barbara continues to make smaller production wines that need a story to be told and we deliver on that promise.  Come and meet the winemakers, passionate owners, and the farmers and see why Santa Barbara deserves a bigger part of your wine budget and why you should plan a number of visits in the months ahead. ABOUT WINELA wineLA is about enhancing the wine culture of Los Angeles. To do so, wine must be in rhythm with fashion, music, food and other beverages.  It must take advantage of the geography, the architecture and the centers of interest. Los Angeles is a giant playground with an amazing array of venues, spaces, wine bars, restaurants, beaches, roof tops, gardens, and magical views. We want to be a part of the LA lifestyle, the wine lifestyle, and celebrate the people, the place and the passion. wineLA will promote significant events, occasional classes, and tastings of merit. This is phase two of what we started 20 years ago at LearnAboutWine.com - America’s first wine education website and first in wine event creation. LearnAboutWine will now evolve onto a digital platform; the transformation will take some time; so we will slowly rebrand our event efforts onto wineLA, reduce the number of activities we focus on, and elevate our efforts to focus on the next big thing… Doing what is best for the wine industry and the communities we serve.  Edicts:  innovate, evolve and excite. We thank you for joining our newsletter, we will be sending fewer emails and packing them with amazing content. We want to be your wine content provider and would love to hear about your favorite places, your music, your locations - we want to be under the influence of what ignites your passion for Los Angeles. ABOUT BEEKEEPER CELLARS Beekeeper Cellars is the vision of best friends and co-winemakers Ian Blackburn and Clay Mauritson. The two collaborated after adventurous individual careers in the wine business, and at last, decided to work together on a project of their own. Clay, a 7th generation grape grower, and his family found themselves the owners of a significant slice of the Rockpile Appellation, through an amazing set of historical land transactions. The Mauritson family realized the potential and parented the creation of the ROCKPILE AVA. In 1998, Ian and Clay climbed the hill and watched the Madrone Spring Vineyard get planted, while discussing the future of Rockpile and the dream it represented. In 2008, Clay saw the fruits of his family's labor taking shape and came to Ian with a unique opportunity to source some of the Rockpile fruit. He told Ian in the difficult days of 2008, “now is the time to get in and build the business and have it take shape as the market improves, and to not wait until business is strong as you will have a hard time getting access to the right quality assets.” Ian took heed of Clay’s wise comment and said "When your best friend is Clay Mauritson and he offers Rockpile fruit and to assist with winemaking…... you make Zinfandel.” In Los Angeles, Ian operates a specialty wine marketing organization known as wineLA and has pioneered wine education for the past 20 years (since 1995) through www.learnaboutwine.com and www.wineLA.com.  Beekee

ANGELA JACKSON, DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS, VISIT NAPA VALLEY - HERE TO CHAT ABOUT NAPA VALLEY RESTAURANT WEEK (JAN. 22-29) & FLAVOR! NAPA VALLEY (MARCH 22 – 26)  BOOK NOW FOR NAPA VALLEY RESTAURANT WEEK: JANUARY 22-29, 2017 Napa Valley Restaurant Week provides both visitors and residents with an added incentive to experience a new restaurant or revisit a favorite. The weeklong promotion, Jan. 22 – 29, 2017, offers diners a choice of a two-course lunch for $20 per person, or a three-course dinner for $36 or $46 per person.  Each chef has created menus to celebrate the season and many of the restaurants offer optional wine pairings at an additional cost.  To view the complete list of restaurants participating in Napa Valley Restaurant Week, visit VisitNapaValley.com/RestaurantWeek. TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR FLAVOR! NAPA VALLEY MARCH 22 – 26  A FIVE DAY FESTIVAL OF FOOD AND WINE BENEFITING THE CIA Individual tickets for Flavor! Napa Valley, March 22 – 26, 2017, which supports programs and scholarships at The Culinary Institute of America’s (CIA) Greystone Campus in St. Helena, CA, are now available for purchase online at FlavorNapaValley.com. Flavor! Napa Valley takes place during Napa Valley’s “Cabernet Season” (November through April) and celebrates both Napa Valley and CIA graduate chefs and winemakers with five days of exclusive food and wine experiences that bring out the best flavors of the legendary Napa Valley. The complete Flavor! Napa Valley schedule, as well as exclusive hotel packages at Silverado Resort and Spa and other Napa Valley lodging partners may be found at FlavorNapaValley.com. Multi-day ticket packages are also available. WWW.VISITNAPAVALLEY.COM CHRISTOPHER CZARNECKI -CHEF/OWNER FROM THE JOEL PALMER HOUSE JOINS US TO CHAT ABOUT SOUP FOR NATIONAL SOUP MONTH Chef and food expert Christopher Czarnecki shares details of how his family restaurant has been around for 100 years and industry trends in regards to soup. About Joel Palmer, the Oregon Pioneer Joel Palmer was one of Oregon’s preeminent pioneers who left Indiana in 1845 to make his long way West. As leader of one of three wagon trains headed for Oregon, Palmer soon exhibited the leadership qualities for which he became famous. Joel Palmer co-founded the town of Dayton in 1848 and built this home in 1857. It is said that the town of Dayton is named after the hometown of Chris Taylor, a close friend. The Czarnecki Family Our family business took shape when my great-grandfather, Joseph Czarnecki, opened Joe’s Tavern in 1916 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His son, Joseph Jr., carried on the tradition, transforming the original tavern into Joe’s Restaurant and changing the focus to fine dining and wine with wild mushrooms (a family passion) as the centerpiece. My father, Jack Czarnecki, followed in his father’s footsteps, taking Joe’s Restaurant to a new level while maintaining the mushroom theme. My parents’ dream to combine fine cuisine, great mushroom hunting, and world-class wine was fully realized in 1996 when they purchased The Joel Palmer House and moved the restaurant West. Christopher Czarnecki's commitment to fine dining was imprinted on him early, literally from the age of 9, when he was allowed to fill the water glasses at his parents' restaurant - originally called Joe’s Restaurant and located in Reading, PA and now, The Joel Palmer House, a landmark in Oregon's wine country. The world of his childhood was a world of fresh local ingredients, fine wines, busy kitchens, and grateful, happy diners – a world he knew he would inhabit as an adult. Czarnecki stepped out of that world for three years in 2003, when he joined the Army, working in food service, including a year of service in Iraq. During the time when Christopher was “cooking in combat boots” he learned the art of precision, and of course, following the rules. Christopher’s covert attempt at spicing up a dish with herbs and butter at one dinner only earned him 50 pushups, r

LAKERS DIET DOCTOR CATE SHANAHAN – HERE TO EXPLAIN WHY VEGETABLE OIL IS YOUR BRAIN’S WORST ENEMY You’ve heard of the cover-ups in the tobacco and sugar industries that prevented the public from learning about the toxic effects of these two products. There’s one more giant industry cover-up you haven’t heard about yet. Vegetable oil—canola oil, soy oil, corn oil and more. Over the past half century, without anyone noticing, these highly processed industrial products have gradually taken over our diets and become the mainstay of the family meal. The most common vegetable oil is soy, and today the average American consumes nearly 2000x the amount of soy oil as in 1909. DEEP NUTRITION: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food (Flatiron Books; Hardcover; January 3, 2017) by Lakers Diet Doc Cate Shanahan, MD with an assist from Luke Shanahan is the antidote. It shows exactly how vegetable oil slowly but inevitably erodes away your health, how vitally healthy people were not too long ago, and paves the way for you to reclaim the health you deserve. Once a world-class athlete plagued by debilitating injuries, physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan was determined to cure her own ailments. So she researched the diets from around the world proven to help people live longer, healthier lives—diets like the Mediterranean, Okinawan, and The Blue Zones—and identified four common nutritional habits that for generations have unfailingly produced strong, healthy, intelligent children, and active, vital elders. These four nutritional strategies form the basis of what Dr. Cate calls “The Human Diet”: ·       Fresh food ·       Fermented and sprouted foods ·       Meat cooked on the bone ·       Organ meats Not all food is created equal. Real food contains ordered information that can direct our cellular growth in a positive way. Our family history does not determine our destiny. What you eat interacts with your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children. By adhering to this Human Diet, Dr. Cate cured her own ailments and has since helped countless patients and readers of the original self-published edition of DEEP NUTRITION achieve their own optimum health. Cutting through conflicting nutritional ideologies, DEEP NUTRITION combines science with common sense to illustrate how the traditions of our ancestors can help us all lead longer, healthier, more vital lives. Catherine Shanahan, M.D. is a board certified family physician. She trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She practiced medicine in Hawaii for a decade, where she studied enthnobotany, as well as the culinary habits of her healthiest patients. She currently runs a metabolic health clinic in Denver, Colorado and serves as the Director of the Los Angeles Lakers PRO Nutrition Program. DRCATE.COM KEVIN DELANEY – HOST OF SCIENCE CHANNEL’S OFF-BEAT NEW SERIES, STREET SCIENCE Watch it Rain Fire… Witness a Man-Made Fire Tornado… See a Leaf Blower Morph Into a Hover Craft… It May Look Impossible But it’s All Science on Science Channel’s Off-Beat New Series, Street Science. Talk with Host Kevin Delaney About His Unusual Experiments and Get a Peak at the Mind-Blowing Clips! Viewers will recognize Kevin Delaney as the resident science guy stunning late night viewers on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He is Director of Visitor Experience at the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, AR. By day, Kevin performs science experiments for kids and inspires adults at night with his Science after Dark program which motivates families to inquire, interact and get involved with science. Kevin is one of the newest faces of Science Channel and stars in the network’s upcoming series Street Science. Kevin leaves his lab behind to hit the streets for experiments that are so unusual and unexpected they will blow your mind. Combining scientific method wi

WORLD-RENOWNED FITNESS AND NUTRITION COACH ADAM ROSANTE SHARES 30 SECOND HACKS TO HELP STAY ON TRACK WITH YOUR FITNESS & NUTRITION GOALS World-renowned Fitness and Nutrition Coach Shares 30 Second Hacks to Help Stay on Track with Your Fitness & Nutrition Goals The start of a new year is always full of promise, hope and holiday remorse. We spend too much money and pack on a few extra pounds during the holiday season and then promise to change our ways in the New Year. Unfortunately, we are over-ambitious and the resolutions rarely stick. Take a look at some New Year’s Resolutions by the Numbers, courtesy of Statistic Brain Research Institute: •         45% of Americans usually make resolutions each year •         85% of resolutions are centered on self-improvement & weight loss •         64% of people give up on their resolutions by the third week of January People cite lack of money and time as the reasons they give up so quickly. But the good news is, 30 seconds is all it takes to stay on track. World-renowned fitness and nutrition coach, Adam Rosante, has teamed up with Pure Protein, maker of delicious protein bars, snacks, powders and shakes, to show how you can stay on track with your fitness and nutrition goals all year long without an expensive gym membership or elaborate meal plan.     As a private coach to A-list actors and professional athletes, creator of The People’s Bootcamp and author of, the #1 best-sellers “The 30-Second Body: Eat Clean, Train Dirty and Live Hard,” and “Super Smoothie Revolution,” Adam is available to discuss/demonstrate: •         30 second fitness hacks you can do anytime, anywhere •         Quick and tasty recipes to help fuel the day without a ton of time or effort •         Protein-packed snacks for energy on the go LEON GRICE - NEW ZEALAND CONSUL-GENERAL, LOS ANGELES - TALKING NEW ZEALAND WINES ABOUT NZ WINE:  New Zealand is a land like no other. New Zealand Wine is an experience like no other. Our special combination of soil, climate and water, our innovative pioneering spirit and our commitment to quality all come together to deliver pure, intense and diverse experiences. In every glass of New Zealand Wine is a world of pure discovery. Welcome to our world. Regions New Zealand extends 1,600km (1000 miles) from sub-tropical Northland (36° S) to the world’s most southerly grape growing region Central Otago (46° S). Vineyards benefit from the moderating effect of the maritime climate (no vineyard is more than 120km, or 80 miles, from the ocean) with long sunshine hours and nights cooled by sea breezes. New Zealand wine is distinctive for its purity, vibrancy and intensity. The long ripening period - a result of cool temperatures - allows flavour development whilst retaining fresh acidity, a balance for which New Zealand wines are renowned. There are a number of distinct major winegrowing regions spread throughout New Zealand, with the majority on the East coast of the Islands in the rain shadow of the mountains. Within these diverse regions, sub-regional characteristics are beginning to show through and wines are now being distinguished as being not just from a wine region, but from a sub-region and a place. We hope you enjoy discovering our regions and producers. Wine Styles New Zealand produces less than 1% of the world’s wine, yet offers an impressive array of varieties and styles. Central to our success is New Zealand’s temperate, maritime climate, the unswerving passion of our wine producers and the highly distinctive nature of our wine styles. It was Sauvignon Blanc that put New Zealand on the wine map, however the diversity and sophistication of our portfolio of wine styles has ensured the love affair with New Zealand wine lives on around the world. New Zealand's expansive coastline enables us to succeed with a range of diverse varieties a

R.D. LIZ WEISS - EASY STEPS TO BECOMING THE “YOU” YOU’VE ALWAYS DREAMED!  SMALL STEPS TO A BETTER YOU Easy Steps to Becoming the “You” You’ve Always Dreamed! In the new year, we all make grandiose plans to lose weight, be healthy and be just better all-around, but these super ambitious promises we make are too nonspecific and often set us up for failure. In fact, studies show 25% of people’s resolutions last only a mere week into January! The beauty of a fresh start is that we can achieve a healthier, happier lifestyle with just small changes in our daily routine, without the pressure of a formal “resolution.” With small, barely noticeable steps you can make your grand dreams of happiness into more of a reality. R.D. Liz Weiss is here is with small changes for happiness and health to better care for ourselves in 2017! Liz Weiss, MS, RDN is an award-winning broadcast journalist, healthy food blogger, and spokesperson. She is the co-author of three cookbooks: The Smoothie Bowl Coloring Cookbook, No Whine with Dinner, and The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers. Liz champions good nutrition on her podcast, Cooking with the Moms, and on her website, MealMakeoverMoms.com where she shares healthy “makeover” recipes and practical mealtime advice for families.  For nearly two decades, Liz wrote and reported on nutrition and health for CNN, PBS, and ABC Boston. Currently, she hosts the “Meal Makeovers” cooking segment on CNN Accent Health, which runs in 30,000 doctor's office waiting rooms nationwide. She has written for numerous publications including Nick Jr. Family Magazine, Kiwi, and Relish magazine and has appeared as a guest on TODAY, CNN Headline News, the Food Network, FOX News, Good Morning America, and many more. Liz lives in Lexington, MA with her husband and two sons. HALOSFUN.COM POMWONDERFUL.COM MINUTERICE.COM  SOMMELIER HOWARD PRICE TELLS US ALL ABOUT HIS RECENT TRAVELS TO COSTA RICA