Southern cuisine employs such distinctive ingredients as peppery-tasting curry leaves, tamarind and coconut milk. Sublime fresh coconut chutneys accompany almost every meal. (Barbara Hansen / LAT)
The dormant , snow-blanketed vineyards of Abeja Winery grow on a century-old farm site. The farms old buildings have been converted into an inn with guest cottages, one of which was a former chicken coop. (Luis Sinco / LAT)
