$10,000 a month to Tweet? I retweeted it last week (meaning you really should follow me on Twitter) that Murphy Goode Winery is offering one lucky duck $10,000 a month for a six months to be their Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent. Details are set to come out April 29 (at midnight) but the gist of it is that you need to be fluent in social networking, videography and generally influencing people to drink their wine. Did we mention they set you up with housing as well?

Don't be surprised if you see BiteClub sniffing around the site later today. Someone's got one heck of a sweet deal coming. And some clever marketing going on. Get the details from the official site: Areallygoodejob.com

UPDATE: The above Twitpic, from Trevr shows the line starting to swell in SF where MG is giving out some preview details today. Follow at #murphygoode.

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Deal of the week: SF Bay Chefs, a new tv show on KRON 4 is coming to shoot @ Syrah this Tuesday (April 28). If you're willing to be on TV, make a 5:30pm reservation and get 25% off & a free dessert !!! This is only good for the Tues @ 5:30pm seating and obviously limited. Be polite. Reservations: 707-568-4002.

- Looking for best local olive oils for an upcoming article. Email me at heather@heatherirwin.com if you want to send samples. Otherwise, just shout out for your faves below.

- Derby Day: Looking for a Mint Julep this week? Info from Jack & Tony's (please add additional Derby events). Come and watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday May 2nd starting at 2:30 p.m.at Jack & Tony's Whisky Bar. Featuring Maker's Mark Mint Juleps and Special Appetizers. Call us at 707-526-4347 for more details.  BiteClub will be sippin' cocktails with the crew at Sonoma Coutrer for the 10th Annual Meals on Wheels Derby Day event on Saturday. On deck are serious good eats, a chef competition between Justin Wangler of Kendall Jackson and Brian Anderson of Bistro 29 and the running of the Kentucky Derby at 3pm (telecast of course).

- Didja hear: Foodgal tells folks that the French Laundry's Thomas Keller is planning to tie the knot with longtime girlfriend Laura Cunningham. Yummy Letter's Scoop (which has the venerable Grace Ann Walden behind it), gets more deets on the couple's planned opening of Vita, an Italian eatery in the former PJ Steak location. Required reading.

- A comment on Yelp stated Charlie's Serious Chili Dogs was moving to Santa Rosa...Has anyone heard anything about this yet? Shout out to BiteClubbers.

- From one of my favorite cookie bakers in SoCo...

"Doughman Glenn Minervini-Zick, maker of ZIX cookies, has found a Sunday hotspot for cookie lovers to pick up their favorites right off the cookie sheet!

That spot is Sebastopol's French Garden Restaurant & Brasserie Sunday Farmers Market.  The outside venue is fun and airy featuring veggies from Dan Smith's organic farm (beets and baby articokes were fast movers this week) under the shade of leaffing apple trees, flowers from Gail Thomas and live music. 

The inside venue presents a long European style bar where the real treats of the market present themselves.  In-house french pastry chef Eric Rocher, originally from Brittany, fills an entire bar with pastries beyond belief.  From strawberry tarts and meyer lemon meringue tarts, to chocolate vanilla Napoleons, Brioche and focaccia; from savory leek and broccoli tarts to pain au chocolate; you won't find better pastries at any other venue in Sonoma County on a Sunday.  Everything from scratch! Baked to perfection!
 
And of course, don't forget to take home some ZIX cookies! See them now at www.zixtreats.com and come by and see Eric and I on Sundays from 10 am to 2 pm at the French Garden's Farmers Market for an 'over the top' pastry show."