Full Belly Files | Looking Back on a Two-Month Blur

This edition of Full Belly Files was originally emailed to subscribers on March 10, 2023. To receive Matt Kettmann’s food newsletter in your inbox each Friday, sign up at independent.com/newsletters.

As passengers on this Full Belly Files train, you’ve been riding shotgun through the first two months of what’s already been a really busy year of traveling and tasting for me.

This past week was no different: managing to survive last weekend’s World of Pinot Noir (though I pulled the plug and headed home early on Friday afternoon), then up to Paso Robles to moderate a few panels of CAB Camp on Tuesday, and then winery meetings in Shell Beach, the Edna Valley, and Guadalupe on Wednesday, followed by a cellar dinner at San Ysidro Ranch that same night. (More on all that in forthcoming Files.)