I repeat myself often. One of the things I like to say about foodies and people who are way too in to wine is that they are often worse than a ComiCon geek off debating Picard v. Kirk. But no foodie or winie could ever be as geeked as this:
Star Trek Cake Upsets Nerds
via io9, […]

It’s a sad story about a good drink gone bad…
Rehabbing the Whiskey Sour
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
Too bad, it’s a good drink.

About every two weeks I open a bottle of wine for dinner that tastes nothing like I expected. One sentence summaries of my recent wine picking failures:
1.) Nero d’Avola with enough oak it tasted like jerky…
2.) A perfect, light salmon colored rose tasting like Jolly Ranchers in Zima…
3.) A cheap white that was supposed to […]

I’m not the only beer lover who gets frustrated by the opposite of choice provided by most bars offering the same, trite shade of blonde. You know what I’m talking about, the bars that offer 15 lagers or pilsners, or light see-thru whatever. Do you really need Heineken, Becks, Stella, Pilsner Urquell, Bud, Miller, High […]

…except their QVC is called Christie’s.
Maybe we don’t all shop QVC, but we’ve all been taken by a deal that seemed to good to be true. But instead of a crappy $30 cubic zirconium ring that turns your finger green, this is a story about a rich guy who paid $156,000 too much for a […]

Jonathan Kauffman went to visit Pietown and eat Frito Pie, so I get to (gulp) hold down the food review fort. The topic: the organized and potentially delightful frivolity that is afternoon tea.
A Tea Two-fer: Taking on the tradition of afternoon tea
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly