ARTICLES BY MICHELLE LOCKE

Perk up St. Pat's Day with perfect Irish coffee

Coffee, Irish whiskey and cream.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

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Civilize Christmas drinking with merry cocktails

Christmas brunch can be a civilized way to celebrate the season, not as frantic as Christmas Eve or as fraught with familial tensions as Christmas Dinner.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

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Tomato myths still sow many seeds of confusion

Any way you slice it, the tomato is one confusing comestible.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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Iced coffee: Grounds for celebration

It wasn't too long ago that a cup of cold coffee wasn't worth beans. But these days iced coffee is one hot brew.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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Summer cocktails that are pitcher perfect

Summer time and the living can be just that little bit easier with pitcher cocktails.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

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Recipes for a royal wedding watching party

Throwing a watching party for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton doesn't have to be a royal pain.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Sensory gardens create days of wine, noses

FULTON, Calif. - Imagine a garden where melon, peach, apple, lemon, pear and gardenias bloom. Then imagine holding all that in a glass.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO

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Wine 2011: Look forward to good prices, choices

Riesling will rise. The market for wine in Asia will boom on. Customers will continue to hunt for vintage values. And the market for fine wine will continue to rumble back to life.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Elmo to cook up good nutrition

"C" is for cookie. And "N" is for nutrition.

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Get in the barbecue spirit with booze-based marinades

NAPA, Calif. - What's Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's barbecue secret ingredient? A sake-spiked marinade, of course.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

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Videogames to Vintner

NAPA, Calif. - After years of overseeing the company that gave the world "Resident Evil," "Street Fighter" and other gore-fest games, Kenzo Tsujimoto is trying his hand in the equally competitive - if less bloody - world of Napa winemaking.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Oscar-inspired cocktails toast the movies

SAN FRANCISCO - Movie magic will be the toast of Tinseltown on Oscar night, and what better way to bring the festivities couch-side than with a cocktail inspired by this year's nominees.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS AGO