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FRONTend
from the publisher’s desk
Ginnie Roeglin
FALL IS MY FAVORITE time of year. I love the beautiful,
vibrant colors of the changing season and enjoy spending
a little more time at home with my family and friends
than the busy summer usually allows. The air is a little
cooler, the foods are a little heartier and it is time to fire
up both the oven and the fireplace.
Slow-roasted foods are perfect for this time of year.
One-pot dinners fill the house with an enticing aroma
as they roast in the oven. Pork is an affordable, delicious,
lean meat that is easy to prepare for family or friends.
For several easy and satisfying fall recipes using Costco’s
pork loin racks, roasts and chops, see page 48.
As the weather cools, many people seem to migrate from the light, crisp white
wines of summer to bigger, bolder red wines that pair well with heartier fall dishes.
Costco has long been a top seller of fine wines, and we began developing our own
Kirkland Signature™ fine wines in 2003. Today, Kirkland Signature is one of the most
successful lines of private-label wines in the country.
Annette Alvarez-Peters oversees our wine program and has become a recognized,
influential expert in the wine industry. Starting on page 70, she explains that while other
private brands focus on low-end wines, Costco focuses on premium, super- and ultra-premium wines. Costco has partnered with a number of great winemakers and their
wineries to develop our top-quality wines. These wines have received high scores from
experts, including Wine Enthusiast and Wine Spectator magazines. (Several Costco members have reported winning blind wine tastings with our Kirkland Signature wines!)
Some of our selected wineries are small. When a specific wine is sold out, that vintage is
gone, so buy it when you see it. A list of wines that will be arriving this fall is on page 71.
So, stock up your wine cellar, cozy up by the fire and enjoy a glass of Kirkland
Signature bold red wine! C
Ginnie Roeglin is Senior Vice
President, E-Commerce and
Publishing, and Publisher of
The Costco Connection.
from the editor’s desk
David W. Fuller
SOMETHING CAROLINE KENNEDY said during our
interview for this month’s cover story keeps resonating with
me: one way for the young to learn about those who have
come before us is to remind them “our country has had
hard times before and we’ve always come through them.”
;e statement is such a clarion answer to a question
we hear all too o;en, and not just from the young: Why
study history? Of the many answers to that question,
I ;nd Caroline Kennedy’s to be the most cogent.
Yes, we can all learn from the mistakes of earlier
generations, and even a cursory study of history will
reveal plenty of those. And the more philosophical “we cannot know where we are
going unless we know where we have been” does make sense.
But it is the pragmatic optimism expressed in Caroline Kennedy’s statement that
should have us all examining the quality (not to mention quantity) of history being
taught today. ;e message is one of reassurance and hope, urging the younger generation
to see for themselves the building blocks of the nation’s and the world’s march toward a
more fair and equitable present and future.
David McCullough, the famed historian, as fair-minded as he is eminent, is well
known for deploring the current condition of history education in the United States. He
lays a good share of the responsibility—and prescription for the cure—directly on “the
parents and grandparents of the oncoming generation. We have to talk about history,”
he said in a recent interview with ;e Wall Street Journal. “Talk about the books we love,
the biographies and histories. We should all take our children to historic places. Go to
Gettysburg. Go to the Capitol.”
;is month, with Caroline and Jacqueline Kennedy as the guides, I invite you
and yours to journey to another historic place in time—the Camelot that was the
New Frontier. C
David W. Fuller is Assistant
Vice President, Publishing, and
Editor of The Costco Connection.
