Wine, Chorizo, Regina Carter, and the Love of a Dog

Another dreamy Bay Area evening of no particular import

Photo by Jos Speetjens on Unsplash

I’m cooking up chorizo on the stovetop. Chorizo from… Gilroy. I was hoping to see the name of some quaint (or at least quaint-sounding) Portuguese village on the label, but no, this chorizo is from our very own Gilroy, California, by way of Costco. The fact that it’s from the U.S…