We are back at it! The tasteMAKERS crew is hitting the road again and working on a brand-new season.
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Join us in wine country for screenings of Winemaking in Missouri: A well-cultivated history, Emmy-winning producer Cat Neville's new documentary on the history of Missouri wine.
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Les Dames d’Escoffier International recently announced this year’s M.F.K. Fisher Prize winners and tasteMAKERS took top honors. The prize supports women creators and is named in honor of renowned culinary writer M.F.K. Fisher whose trailblazing work encouraged deeper thought about the cultural significance of foodways.
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Much of the history of American winemaking is tied up in the story of wine in Missouri and we are going to tell the full tale.
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I'm usually the one on the other side of the mic, not the one being interviewed — Sarah made it easy ... you can take a listen here.
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Join me on a river cruise through France’s legendary wine capital, Bordeaux, and uncover historic monuments including St. Emilion’s monolithic limestone church and the perfectly preserved, 700-year-old Château de Roquetaillade.
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Shocked, elated, humbled — it’s hard to find the right words to describe the feeling of being nominated for a Daytime Emmy …
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I don’t know if we will ever find exactly which apples were grown on the farm, but we can source heritage varieties that we know Husmann cultivated, an exciting prospect as we look at ways to honor the groundbreaking work of the people who called Hermann Farm home.
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While I was digging around for information on the Rasche family, I found information about this graveyard online, so I knew it was on the farm somewhere. As I was walking the farm with Gregg Lamb, a local agriculture consultant who has offered to help me determine what can be planted where on the farm, there it was, siting on top of a hill overlooking the distillery.
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Hermann Farm + Museum is the historic home of many with an impact on Missouri’s wine industry and the Teubner-Husmann House, shown here, is at the center of the Farm’s story and a main stop on our two-hour tours.
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I kept thinking about the feeling I would have while on location for a story — I always had this longing I couldn’t place. An ache of some sort that left me feeling like something was missing. I’d want to stay with the farmers, the makers. Rather than just telling the story, I wanted to become part of the story.
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On Monday, I begin a new journey as the chief curator of the Hermann Farm + Museum in Hermann, Missouri, working in partnership with the Dierberg Educational Foundation to establish the farm as a center for sustainable agriculture and culinary innovation.
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