Adolf Carl Tiedemann IV passed away peacefully at 4:45 am on Saturday, May 14, 2022.
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Last Call
Cancer takes so many people too soon. It makes me so sad that families have to see their loved ones suffer. Cancer is just terrible in that respect. So many people losing so much…
From The Archives: Chef Trotter & the Mushroom King
Carl has been a little under the weather the last couple of days. So we’ve decided to pull out one of our editor’s favorite early blogs from January 21, 2013, to re-run. This piece is about Carl’s experience in the legendary Chef Charlie Trotter’s kitchen in Chicago. Trotter was an American chef and restaurateur. His most well-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter’s, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012…
2021 California Wine Harvest
If there is a low yield harvest, grape prices tend to go up because of the lack of grapes. If the yield is up, grape prices tend to stay steady or go down. This all tends to affect the price of a bottle of wine. The crop was light in 2020 with only 3.4 million tons of wine grapes being crushed…
My Cancer Story
It is amazing to me how one day you can be on top of the world and the next day you are in the doldrums. Cancer has that effect on you and certainly has on me. In this week’s blog I want to share my cancer story with you. For a number of years my PSA level had been running high. I did not worry about it because there were no other problems. In 2018 I developed a nodule in my prostate. My doctor became worried that it was cancer…
