We have all been cooking at home for what feels like forever due to the COVID-19 situation. Fortunately, many of our favorite restaurants are opening their doors and adapting to the new guidelines for offering takeout and delivery. While we await the news of when we can dine out again, we met up with some of the finest Seven Mile Beach chefs to get to know them a little better.

Where do you get your inspiration from, when creating a new dish? Many places: a produce or an open-air market (though not so much right now!), a documentary about a place or culture or trying to reinterpret a classic or traditional dish.

After writing my last article on the red wines of Spain, I felt I would be remiss not to include the delicious white wines of Spain.

Remember that time we had a fabulous Memorial Day Quarantine Barbecue? In spite of the naysayers, I know that someday we will say that sentence and be totally impressed with ourselves. It’s a challenge, to be sure, but not impossible. Let’s create a fun, festive event for our typical beginning of the season barbecue during what is surely a most atypical time.

It’s been a wild ride the past few months as the coronavirus ravaged life as we know it, and forced everyone into prolonged quarantine and social distancing.