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.)