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Silverado Resort’s Executive Chef Peter Pahk Keeps It Natural

Silverado Resort’s Executive Chef Peter Pahk Keeps It NaturalPeter Pahk is one of the West's new breed of pioneers, trailblazing innovative ideas for sustainable food practices and encouraging the use of locally grown and organic ingredients as the foundation for world-class cuisine offerings.

The executive chief at Napa Valley, California's Silverado Resort, Pahk is showing that award-winning presentations not only can embrace "green" initiatives, but please the palate and the eye as well.

"What every chef tries to do is fit himself or herself into the region he goes into," Pahk told OldWestNewWest.Com. "I'm lucky to be here. There are so many wonderful products around us, so many organic products here in Napa Valley and all up and down the California coast."

Pahk is even leading the way to recycling food scraps at the prestigious four-diamond luxury resort just 50 miles northeast of San Francisco.
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Veteran Travel Writers Paul Lasley, Elizabeth Harryman Bringing Their Expertise to OldWestNewWest.Com

Veteran Travel Writers Paul Lasley, Elizabeth Harryman Bringing Their Expertise to OldWestNewWest.Com Noted travel writers Paul Lasley and Elizabeth Harryman will be bringing their travel expertise to OldWestNewWest.Com Travel & History Magazine starting with this month, announced Mike Harris, publisher, saying that the two experts will provide e...
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Western Author Writes As If She Lived It

Western Author Writes As If She Lived It When it comes to writing about the Old West, Melody Groves says she feels as if she's lived it; of course since she is a gun-toting Western re-enactor, she really does live it just about every weekend at Albuquerque, New Mexico's Old Town.

"I write wh...
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Public’s Interest in the West Remains Strong, Says Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

Public’s Interest in the West Remains Strong, Says Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West On Sept. 28, 1542, Spanish explorer and conquistador Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed his flagship San Salvador into San Diego Bay, opening California's door to what some would call the curse of civilization.

What followed over the next 400-plus years b...
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Civil War Preservation Trust Fights To Save Battlefields in the West

Civil War Preservation Trust Fights To Save Battlefields in the West

James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Preservation Trust, is keenly aware that the American Civil War battlefields in the West are in danger from development or deterioration, and that time is running out on the ability to fully preserve them....

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