The Napa Table

01/10/2025

Presenting Brie Mine, a Valentine’s Day cheese tasting as part of our Friday Night Fromage series ❤️ join us on Valentine’s Day for a love letter to cheese, and to the makers and animals that put their hearts into what we eat. Between six cheese and fine food courses, sparkling wine and special desserts from , it’s going to be an evening to remember! Come solo, with a loved one or bring friends, we always have the best time ❤️

With the recent wildfires plaguing beautiful Southern California, 50% of all ticket sales for Brie Mine will be donated to the American Red Cross for victim relief. Our hearts go out to all those affected. Hug your loved ones, life is so precious.

From our Friday Night Fromage series, The Napa Table presents Brie Mine, a Valentine's Day cheese tasting. Enjoy an immersive evening with a loved one, friends or yourself (and meet new friends there!), learning about artisanal cheeses and their perfect food pairings. Our tastings dive deep into the...

10/24/2024

Our fall cheese tasting is LIVE! Join us on Friday, November 29th at 6:30 pm for a cheese + festive fall food pairing featuring carefully curated artisanal cheeses, perfectly paired autumn specialties, great wine + zero proof bevvies, sweet treats and a few surprises!

This event is perfect for the day after Thanksgiving, when you don’t feel like cooking and want to do something fun with friends and family. Bring loved ones or come solo to meet new friends! It’s going to be an amazing evening, and my guarantee to you as a certified cheese professional® is that you’ll learn (and eat!) a LOT.

Can’t wait to see you there! Spots are limited, book before they sell out 🫶🏼 Our fall cheese tasting is LIVE! Join us on Friday, November 29th at 6:30 pm for a cheese + festive fall food pairing featuring carefully curated artisanal cheeses, perfectly paired autumn specialties, great wine + zero proof bevvies, sweet treats and a few surprises!

This event is perfect for the day after Thanksgiving, when you don’t feel like cooking and want to do something fun with friends and family. Bring loved ones or come solo to meet new friends! It’s going to be an amazing evening, and my guarantee to you as a certified cheese professional® is that you’ll learn (and eat!) a LOT.

Can’t wait to see you there! Spots are limited, book before they sell out 🫶🏼 exploretock.com/thenapatable/event/512657/fall-in-love-with-fromage-a-festive-cheese-tasting

05/13/2024

Join us tonight for our free webinar "French Food Culture: Five Things We Love!" We'll be chatting about mindful eating, slow living and the joy of the French foodie joie de vivre. We'll also be giving away one of our favorite books, The Whole Fromage by Kathe Lison, to one of our attendees! See you there: thenapatable.com

04/24/2024

It was so special to be interviewed by the Napa Valley Register for this article. 🥹 We’ve been working so hard the last two years to foster the growth of The Napa Table. I didn’t know that cheese would be my vocation, but I’m so grateful every day for the amazing journey it’s been. 🤍

At The Napa Table, two sisters have created a business around cheese tastings, cheese and charcuterie boards, virtual courses and even cheese tours.

03/12/2024

I’m offering these sweet fruit and cheese rainbow platters for St Patrick’s Day this weekend! 🌈 $39, available for pick up in Napa Fri/Sat/Sun. Let me know if you’d like one or you can order here: thenapatable.com/options

01/10/2024

I am BEYOND excited to share that I’ve been selected as the Comté Cheese Association’s 2024 scholarship winner, and will be sent to the Jura region of France this summer to learn all about (and eat!) Comté, its producers, farmers and terroir 😍😭🥳 this is an absolute DREAM come true and I’m still in shock! I can’t wait to explore the French Alps and I’m so grateful.

The pictures in Paris are from 11 years ago on our first trip to France. It’s what started it all for me and what I wrote about in my essay. If you’d like, you can read the essay I wrote as part of my scholarship application:https://media.comte-usa.com/essays/23-H-Pingee-essay.pdf

01/09/2024

What are you hoping for in 2024?

So many people, especially us women, will start making lists of things that are “self-improvement” focused. They include lists of “I should do this . . .,” usually because we’re trying to “fix” something about us that we see as problematic.

BUT . . .

What if we changed our resolutions to be “self-CARE” focused? What if instead of picking out goals for improvement, we decided on practices that fostered more self-love?

In 2023, after a few years of researching and learning, and adopting The Napa Table principles, I set my own mindfulness system in motion. I worked on changing my focus from result-driven goals to developing feeling-driven practices.
I cultivated a life of INTENTION. . . and my soul is so much better for it.

I dove deep into my spiritual side. I adopted a daily (most often 2x daily) meditation practice and incorporated breath work.

I journal affirmations and spend time reading them and repeating them to myself.

I look in the mirror every day and point out things I love about myself.

I stretch and move.
Before I eat anything, I spend a minute or two thinking about what I want and letting my thoughts sit with it to see if it actually sounds appealing, or if I’m eating it from a place of negative emotion.
I savor simple moments like drinking my warm cup of herbal tea or cacao.

I read and read and listen and listen and consume ideas and perspectives on life, then sift through the information either by myself or by sharing all I’ve learned with others, finding what resonates with me.

It’s not that I don’t struggle with the things. All the things. But the change in me and my self-love has only come as I’ve stopped working on result-driven goals like weight loss, dieting, specific tv-watching caps, gym hours, etc…

Ester Hicks once said that the most important thing, ever, is that you feel good.
And it seems selfish at first glance, but it’s not.

Because we can only give as much as we have.

So what are you hoping for in 2024?

Try replacing “lose 20 pounds” with “feel limber and good in my own skin.”

They’re radically different thoughts with radically different intentions.

Just ruminate on that. Sit with it. ❤️
And in the meantime, see all the things we have to support you in your journey at www.thenapatable.com

01/02/2024

Registration for our Fall in France Retreat 2024 is now open! Learn more here 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Join us in Paris, Normandy and Brittany, September 8-15, 2024! Together we’ll spend 7 idyllic days discovering the world of cheese, butter, pastry, bread, and all things gourmand. From cheese shop tours in Paris to farm visits in Normandy, we’ll explore the beauty that France has to offer throug...

10/25/2023

Introducing our next Clue character: Colonel Mustard 🧓🏼🤩 featuring ’s signature L’Amuse Gouda, whole grain mustard from and golden salted caramels. A well-traveled, man of intrigue deserves a complex, finely-aged cheese like L’Amuse. 😏 who’s next?

10/23/2023

I’ve been leaning hard into more delicate, chromatic, autumncore boards this year rather than CharBOOterie. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a total sucker for a theme and am loving all the fun spooky cheese boards and appetizer ideas I’ve seen floating around! This season in Napa has just felt so magical to me— the weather, the colors— I’m just loving sticking close to Wine Country Fall Vibes 🥹🧡 what do you think?

10/21/2023

Celebrating with a throwback to one of my favorite views in the world: mountains of French cheese “au lait cru” (made with raw milk)! 😍 here in the states any cheese aged 60 days or less must be pasteurized— so it’s always a treat to eat allll the soft, gooey, raw milk cheeses when abroad. Luckily, we still have lots of raw milk options made by cheesemakers in the US and imported, even if they do run on the longer-aged side 🤍