We washed down the bacon tempura with Segura Viudas Cava which I swear is the best dry, under $7 or $8 Spanish bubbles I’ve had. It doesn’t taste gassy like most cheap sparkling wine.
We also sucked down a few bottles of Southern Right Sauvignon Blanc before the whole shabang began. I love South African […]

I know it will ruin my glutonous troff cred, but I do yoga most days. Not just any yoga, but that crazy people hot yoga. And when I’m finished… I crave salty food like nobody’s business. I’m talking family size bag of potato chips in ten minutes. So instead of going off the deep end […]

On Friday, I went to the Louis/Dressner Selections Vignerons Attack! Real Wine Assault tasting. 15 different French wineries and their owners and/or winemakers, and over 50 delightfully balanced wines from the Loire Valley and beyond.
Wines from the Louis/Dressner catalog are made by natural means: hand harvesting, the most ecologically sound viticulture, wild yeasts… These […]

(w/ permission of artist Stephanie McMillan of minimumsecurity.net)
This cartoon is awesome. Unfortunately, Bill Napoli was unable to settle my Root Beer Float or Cherry Cherry Bang Bang toe nail color quandry. I’ll try him again tomorrow, asking “fusilli or rigatoni?” Then the next day, I’ll ask him to weigh in on my scrambled vs. over […]

According to Nick Farrell’s ARTICLE on The Inquirer, Microsoft in big trouble. Vista no work so good.
“MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division.” Uh oh, Lucy!
On a lighter note, isn’t the […]

Can I just bitch a little more about the price of certain wines in my state? I mean, when did Lirac become $18???? It should be twelve bucks! Tops! Oh, I’m just getting old, you say? I’m thirty-fucking-two! I’m telling you, prices are whack.
It started to get difficult last year, as a buyer, to find […]

So I realized I haven’t posted much in way of wine reviews lately. Allow me to make ammends. A week ago or so, I went to a travelling show for Alsace and the Rhone Valley. I don’t know why they travelled together. Or who the hell it was that put the whole thing on (SopexaUSA??? […]

When I was a bartender, I used to make damn sure I had a select few specific dates off:
Every full moon
(everything you hear is true, people get bat shit insane)
the Illinois/Michigan football game
(gimmee-a D! gimmee-a “runkie!” What’s that spell?! speeeew!!)
Valentine’s Day
(a very depressing day to work, forget your date status)
St. Patrick’s Day
(it’s not […]

As promised, a little round up of the chocolate-y highlights from Chocolate for Choice last week. At right is a pic of my favorite piece, sculpted by Amanda Anderson of Bandeleone. Gold leaf is the sequin of the dessert world. Use sparingly and it’s still hard to pull off. She did a gorgeous job.
And without […]

Something’s happened to me of late… I’ve become more and more of a Chai convert. Please, don’t go! Let me explain.
It’s not like that. I’m not that way. I still don’t own a single article of fleece. I can comb through my hair easily. I hate jam bands. I hate patchouli. I…I…I just really, really […]