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Raspberry and Dark Chocolate Cheesecake

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here is a romantic dessert recipe guaranteed to sweeten any night.

INGREDIENTS

Ingredients:

• 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted
• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup raspberries
• 2 ounces dark chocolate, melted




DIRECTIONS

Mix the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter press into the bottom and up 1 inch along the sides of a 9 inch, spring form pan.

Beat the cream cheese until smooth and then beat in the sugar followed by the eggs, then one at a time, the sour cream and vanilla extract.

Pour 1/4 of the mixture into the spring form pan, sprinkle on the raspberries, drizzle with chocolate, and cover with the remaining cheese mixture.

Double wrap the bottom of the spring form pan with foil, place it in an oven safe pan and pour recently boiled water into the into the pan so that it goes one inch up the foil wrapping.

Bake in a preheated 350F oven until there is just a small wobble in the middle when shaken, about an hour.

Let cool, remove the foil, cover in plastic and place in the fridge overnight.

Serve garnished with fresh raspberries and chocolate drizzle.

February Newsletter 2015

, Welcome to the February, 2015 Newsletter! In this month’s edition we will take you through a Valentine inspired experience, from all over the world. We will also be featuring a romantic dessert for two.

Valentine’s Day Around the World

The month of February is garnished with roses, heart-shaped chocolates, and the desire to get away on a romantic holiday. While the origin of V-Day is unclear, the holiday has spread among a spectrum of cultures in many different manifestations. Below are a series of February destinations where you can experience a different kind of Valentine’s Day.

Helsinki, Finland
For all the uncoupled, Finland’s February holiday is as platonic as they come. The celebration, Ystävänpäivä, or “Friend’s Day,” is about celebrating friendships, not relationships. The Finnish go around spreading love, and chocolates, to all their friends and loved ones. While the holiday is an adopted one, the Finnish variation is still celebrated loudly with festivals and gala carnivals booming all over Helsinki. 

Kyoto, Japan
Aside from the romantic beauty of the city, Kyoto is also a fantastic destination for February travelers because of Japan’s interesting take on Valentine’s Day. For a twist on the traditional chocolate swap, Japan’s day of love involves women giving chocolates to men, and not the other way around. Women are able to express their love, and the city is colored with intricate chocolate delicacies. The holiday’s success gave rise to a new holiday, “Reply Day,” on March 14th, whereby men are inclined to reciprocate the chocolates given to them the month before. 

Manila, Philippines
Although the Philippines also joined the Valentine’s Day tradition late, its appearance on this list is due to the country’s dedication to honoring the holiday. In 2004, Manila held their first Lovapalooza where thousands of couples gathered at midnight on February 14th to break the Guinness records for most simultaneous kisses. The city has then remained a celebration of love, with parades and festivities all over Manila. It is a great alternative to the standard American Valentine, and one for the record books. 

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January Newsletter 2015

        A Cultural Guide to Prague

The city of Prague is known for its preservation of medieval architecture, its castles, Gothic towers, Baroque buildings, and statue-adorned bridges. From its classical beauty to its cobblestone streets, Prague drips with history and culture, making it a city full of world-renowned, cultural museums.

Winter is the perfect setting—snow-covered roofs make it fairy-tale—and with so many galleries and museums, it’s easy to stay warm.

 Historical Museums
In a country rife with culture, it’s difficult to demonstrate all of its historical and scientific achievements. The National Museum somehow pulled it off. With over 14 million items ranging from natural history, arts, music, and so forth, this museum can easily take up a whole day. Luckily, it’s organized into different departments: from Ethnography to Theater. This is the best way to view the entire spectrum of Prague. 

On the outskirts of the bustling Old Town Square is the smallest sub-area in Prague, the Jewish Quarter. Here you can see the narrow streets that inspired the surrealist thought of famous Czech author, Franz Kafka. Although the Jewish quarters have not been as well preserved as the rest of the city, the Jewish Museum in Prague provides a collection of Jewish artifacts that illustrate the lives of Jews in Prague as well as Europe. 

                                         

Art Museums

As intellectual and historical as Prague is, it’s also beautiful. The city itself is an exhibition, with a large castle as a backdrop and its Astronomical Clock in the city center, walking around will satisfy any appetite for art. But it doesn’t end there. The Museum of Decorative Arts focuses on decorative and applied arts ranging from Late Antiquity to the present-day. Its mission is to inspire and preserve for future generations examples of historical and contemporary crafts, applied arts, and design. If you want to see an extensive history of design, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, glass, and so on, this museum is the way to go. 

For a more traditional art museum—one with actual paintings—the not-so-traditional modern art museum, National Gallery, contains the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic. The collections are displayed in different historic buildings all over the city. With international works from, Rodin, Gauguin, Renoir, Picasso, and Van Gogh, this is a must-visit for any level of art admirer. It also has a vast collection of Czech artists, who were relevant in modern art movements. 

Collections of Famous Czech’s

If you wanted to get a more close-up and personal understanding of famous Czech thinkers and painters, commemorative collections are all over the city. The Franz Kafka Museum is as strange as Kafka’s work. It’s a small exhibition that attempts to understand the mind of Prague’s most famous writer. Fashioned gothic and mystical like Kafka, it exhibits torture machines and eerie music, illustrating his surreal life and work. Also, after a strange visit to the exhibit, you can stroll along the river to a street-full of cafes and pubs. 

Another Czech innovator, Alphonse Mucha, has a modest exhibition—Mucha Museum—where you can view a gallery of his famous Art Nouveau paintings. His illustrations of women have become the poster-child for Bohemia, Psychedelia, and contemporary art. You've seen his art, without realizing, on postcards, French art, and classic rock posters. His artistic revival, is captured beautifully in this small exhibit of his life and work. 

Art in Strange Places

If you’ve taken our advice, your pocket-book may be empty. Museums aren't free, after all. For a cheap and spontaneous way to view art, wander through the narrow corridors around the city. You will be sure to find many different art galleries, free: paintings of the city, the surreal, and similar sculptures. Also be sure to hunt got local sculptor, David Cerný’s work, hidden all over the city. His work is controversial and entertaining. As you walk along the river bank, you will stumble upon massive, crawling, face-less babies, or an offensive fountain or two. Prague has become this sculptor’s playground, adding to the surreal air of the city. 

Another art anomaly is the famous Dancing House, Fred and Ginger. The building itself is an artistic accomplishment. Juxtaposed next to classical Baroque architecture, it’s hard to miss. Inside the Dancing House is a contemporary café and an elegant restaurant. There is also an art gallery with a permanent exhibition of the building’s origins and architecture. The place’s best well-kept secret: sneak onto the roof to get a great view of the city. 

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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2014

 Welcome to the December 2014 Newsletter! In this month’s edition we will be highlighting the best ski and snowboard locations in California. 

In This Issue:

Top Ski Resorts in California

Top Ski Resorts in California

There’s something special about California’s diversity. Beach, desert, and snow can be found within hours of each other, something that is, for the rest of the world, a unique rarity. For this month’s newsletter, we’ve decided to feature three, snowy, bear-state locations in close proximity to other terrain. For those of you planning to visit California for only a short time, this is a guide to getting a fair picture of the manifest destiny state.


Mammoth Mountain: Mammoth Lakes, CA
No list of good snow could be complete without Mammoth Mountain. In the purview of the U.S., Mammoth’s snow is some of the best: dry, powdery, forgiving. The same goes for its size: Mammoth has 28 lifts, spanning 3,500 acres. Mammoth has some of the best back-country around—see below for the iconic “Hole in the Wall”—as well as a fantastic snow-play park, equipped with sledding inner-tubes, toboggans, man-made snow mountains, and a snow carousel.

On the East side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Mammoth may seem like a trek to get to, but it’s only four hours away from the state’s capital, and forty miles from Bishop, California: one of the most beautiful hiking and climbing spots in the country.

Lake Tahoe: Lake Tahoe, CA
Tahoe is located on the California-Nevada border, and is known for its sweeping, panoramic views. Aside from the snow sports, you can count on some of the most beautiful, snow-covered landscapes in the country. Tahoe has seven top-class alpine resorts, so anyone interested in variety should find themselves there. 

Speaking of variety, Tahoe is located in Stanislaus Forest, the same forest that encompasses Yosemite, so it’s a quick shot away from a camper’s mecca. Also, San Francisco is approximately three hours away. A half-day in the snow could be easily followed by a bowl of beach-side chowder.

Big Bear: Big Bear Lake, CA

Big Bear Mountain wins the ease-of-access category. Some two hours away from both LAX and San Diego Airport, Big Bear is a great place for anyone visiting Southern California for a weekend. 

Big Bear proper is a homey mountain town, chock-full of local bars, toboggan parks, and sledding, and, if that’s not enough, there’s always Gaslamp or Hollywood a quick drive from the mountain. 

Mt Baldy: San Antonio, CA

Mount San Antonio—colloquially, Mount Baldy—is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, the highest point in Los Angeles County. An extinct volcano, Baldy makes for a great place for snow sports, as well as hiking. The “Ski Hut” trail leads directly to “Baldy’s Bowl,” where tourists can see a massive basin of volcanic lava rock. 

Although there are only four main lifts on the mountain, Baldy has maintained its long-standing reputation as the “Crown Jewel” of San Gabriel—as well as most photographed icon in Southern California—because of its accessibility to Los Angeleans. It’s hardly 15 miles from San Ontario. Anyone visiting L.A. who’s short on time should absolutely consider making the short drive up the mountainside.

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