The Year in Booze in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
wherein I herald the rise of bitterness and my love for
gasp, a vegetarian tavern
Also, if you live in Seattle, don’t miss Jonathan Kauffman’s Top Ten Dishes he ate in 2007. I ate some with him. Mmmmm….Pam’s bust-up-shuts… And! his compiled list of restaurants etc. that […]

When drinking, I don’t do frou frou, and that should be explicitly clear from this blog. But when is something automatically a frou frou drink? My first through fifth answers:
1. Something unnaturally green or flavored
….(Midori, Apple Pucker, the ‘Bu)
2. The rim job involves cookie or graham cracker crumbs
3. Sounds like a drag queen (Dark […]

Have you not listened to Tom Douglas and Thierry Rautureau on 710 KIRO before? They’re freakin’ hysterical, and informative, and fun. And I’m not just saying that because one of them used to sign my paychecks. (4-7pm on the AM dial)
I’ll be on this Saturday at 5pm, talkin about holiday gift ideas and Menu For […]

((all new posts will appear below this one until Dec. 20th))
The 4th Menu For Hope benefits the UN’s World Food Programme. Last year’s raffle raised $61,000. It’s a project started by Chez Pim, and I’ve elected to participate again because of all of you. I am always overwhelmed by the amount of money you all […]

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Or as my editor at Seattle Weekly subtitled it: Red Wine and Chocolate, arranged marriage. Beer and Chocolate, hot sex. Yeah, that’s about right. I think he’s trying to get me in a fight, too, by the looks of the title they went with….
Red Wine Doesn’t Go With Chocolate. Try Beer Instead.
in […]

I adore mead–making it, smelling it, sipping it… It is something so heady and complex created out of only a few simple ingredients. Once you’ve had great mead, mediocre white wine just seems like a complete waste of time.
Nectar of the Nerds
by Moi, in this issue of the Seattle Weekly