About

Staff:
Duane Pemberton - Publisher
Traci Garrett - Food expert, Professional chef and teacher
Edd LaVille - Winemaker consultant

Welcome to WineFoot.com - where we’re doing our part to help make wine fun again! Wine is all about bringing together the best elements in life - Family, friends, food and memories.Our pledge to you is:
- Always be truthful about a wine - We do not bow to “the wine Industry” pressure for good ratings. We call it like we see it, no matter what. No holds barred.

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About Duane:


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I was raised in a middle-income family in Renton WA where I grew up eating a steady diet of Banquet Boxed chicken, canned vegetables and food from the local grocery deli. We occasionally had over-cooked steaks which always required the use of enough A1 steak sauce to mask the flavor. Looking back on it now, it was more like we had grilled A1 and not grilled steak.

About 9 years ago I started a site called Gamers Depot which I suppose had some successes in its own right and was a well-recognized brand within the PC hardware and video game industry. During my tenure at GD, I got to travel quite a bit and eat at lots of great restaurants. It wasn’t too long after that my wife introduced me to the Food Network - between that and eating fine dining when traveling, I got the “food bug” and started cooking at home.

Of course this meant that I’d also soon find the pure bliss of fine wines to go with the wonderful foods I was making with my wife. This newfound love and passion in my life has guided my desire to not only learn a lot about wine, but also have had the chance to work briefly in the wine industry as a rep and meet some of the best folks in the wine business anywhere.

Today you can find me running Boot Daily.com (the successor to Gamers Depot), drinking wine, doing quite a bit of cooking for friends and family as well as here on WineFoot.com.

About Traci Garrett:
Traci grew up with her mom in the kitchen, Julia Child and Graham Kerr on T.V. – just the look on Julia’s face as she savored her creations or Graham’s look as he bit into something he had just prepared in order to demonstrate how powerful good food is helped kick-start Traci’s love and passion for food.

She taught her first cooking class at age 16, ended-up in Italy at 20 – where she would live for the next 18 years – and the rest is history. The Italy experience really cemented her passion as she had unprecedented access to new kinds of ingredients and a new culture to embrace. Part of this new experience was hanging out with ordinary folks in the Tuscan region – in their kitchens and homes, begging grandma’s over there for their secrets.

While Traci doesn’t consider herself to be a “chef” – there are many who’d argue that she is whether she wants the title or not. A chef wears many hats in the kitchen as does Traci. She’s a food-lover in the truest sense of the phrase and she really enjoys cultivating, preparing, eating, teaching and best of all, enjoying food with her family and friends.

Today you can find Traci at Marzano’s Italian Restaurant in Parkland, Washington where she enjoys creating fresh Italian dishes or at Urban Gourmet in Tacoma teaching numerous culinary classes.