When fantasy becomes reality X 3... I'd been doing just fine as a New York food and wine critic, content with books, baking, and my boyfriend. But "content" wasn't what I was after. Passion and excitement were more like it, but now that I'd gotten royally dumped and unceremoniously fired, "sucked" was the best word to describe my life. So I moved. To Northern California. To claim my inheritance from my great-aunt: a run-down house...