Kathleen and Gerald Hill combine their loves of food, wine, and travel to almost constantly travel in search of the best of everything for their six Hill Guides to wine regions of the west coast.

Both fourth generation Californians, the Hills have lived in the heart of Northern California's wine country for 30 years and wake up each morning ecstatic to be alive to explore foods and wineries of the left coast.

Kathleen and Jerry have written 25 books together, including several editions of their six Hill Guides, political and legal dictionaries, and an encyclopedia of the federal government.

Their split personality interests go back to when Kathleen was a student of French literature, language and politics at the Sorbonne in Paris and talked her way into being the first person to audit courses at the Cordon Bleu. Together Kathleen and Jerry teach U.S. and comparative politics at universities in California and British Columbia, adding to their excuses to "research" every nook and cranny from Santa Barbara, California to Naramata, British Columbia.

Please clue us in on any new finds at hilltopub@aol.com.

Kathleen and Gerald Hill