Your dream food-focused trips are waiting for you. Find city guides, itineraries, answers FAQs, road trip ideas, travel tips, recipes, and more inspired by our home state of California from us the experts at Salt & Wind Travel.
So you've decided to road trip through the Golden State? Well, here are our essential tips before hitting the road so you can be sure to make the most of it!
California’s Central Valley is one of the most productive food growing regions in the world. “Eat Farm to Table Cuisine in California’s Central Valley” explores the different dishes visiting locals and travelers can enjoy.
The Fresno-to-Yosemite road trip boasts some of the best food in California. This route for food lovers (and everyone else) provides a path for meals and adventures.
Stretching between California's Sierra Nevada mountains and the Nevada State line, Highway 395 road wanders past old mining towns, premium ski resorts, legit ghost towns, and famous film locations.
Chocolate Salted Caramel Almond Butter Tart Recipe: don't let the long name scare you! This chocolate tart is simple to make and tastes delicious. The crust is made of salted crused graham crackers, the nut butter caramel is smooth and creamy and best of all, it's all covered in rich chocolate ganache.
Up your homemade hummus game with this decidedly fall take made with pumpkin, maple syrup, and roasted garlic. Serve it with crackers, cut up veg, or slather it on your favorite vegetable sandwich.
You could use this sweet-sour herbed grape sauce on anything from pork chops to salmon. But our favorite is to top a crusty piece of bread with some burrata or curls of cured meat and serve it as a cocktail party bite.
There are a lot of stressors during the holidays -- rowdy relatives, long shopping lines, new recipes -- and we can’t help with all of it. But we can help relieve any angst on the food and wine front with these our top tips for food and wine pairings.
California’s Sierra Foothills are known as the epicenter of the Gold Rush. But the area has also been home to wine grapes since the early 1800’s, but that’s just the beginning. Discover the story behind the wines and the region.
This sweet potato appetizer is essentially crisp sweet potato chips scattered across whipped goat cheese. It may just sound like a healthy plant-based appetizer, but that is discounting it. The smoky, crisp sweet potato combined with the ethereally light, sweet, peppery, herbed goat cheese is pure appetizer magic.
California’s Central Coast is a bit of a mystery to many travelers. We say that because, in the years we’ve provided our travel advising services in California, we’ve had plenty of people come to us for advice on where to go in this region. And that's especially the case with Paso Robles.