(( added June 1st, 2007:
Dear Michael Hebberoy,
I’m sorry this post comes up first in Google for “kill the restaurant.”
Dear readers,
Check out Michael’s site for the book he’s writing, Kill The Restaurant, from which a jacked the title for this post. PS: onepot is cool and not the subject of this post.
-XOX, Maggie […]

…and we’re back. The post schedule back in full swing starting now.
I’ve got lots of tasting notes to organize and put up, so I’m going to ask you to do a few things in the next couple months as payment on all this free knowledge. For now, please pick one of the challenges below and […]

Project Runway is the only reality show worth watching. (I used to have my own custom shop.) What are the judges smoking on Project Runway??? Baby Factory better get sent home next week, all I can say. Kane can be tacky, but at least he has range (the Monroe dress?… that couture skirting?). Laura is […]

I post this because I’m sure most wine bloggers will be a-twitter over it.
Grapes of Wrath for Wine Fraudster
in Sydney Morning Herald
Basically, wine producer George Duboeuf got caught and fined for allegedly bending the Beaujolais AOC rules, blending in juice/grapes that aren’t allowed or don’t meet up to the standard in that area. […]

Gorging on tortas at the local El Salvadorian bakery, noticed this label and had to try it. It’s weird, non-alcoholic, and I have no frame of reference for its taste.
Think along the lines of a winter ale, brewed with lots of malt. Cross breed it with unsugared root beer, and you come pretty close. It […]

Most know Cardamom is my very favorite
thing. Ever since I found an extra pepper
grinder and brought some pods home a few
years back, I’ve been putting it in everything.
Cardamom is native to India and is used
extensively throughout the Middle East and
China. It is one of the main spices of Garam
Masala and the thing that makes Turkish
coffee […]

Well, it’s official. The ass monkeys known as Southern Wine & Spirits have finally roofied a Washington state distributor into “surrendering their catalog.” For those who have never had the unique joy of dealing with wholesalers (and by joy I mean terrible pain just below the coin slot), Southern Wine & Spirits is to 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 […]

In response to a comment on his comment about the uppity, humilty-lacking sommelier where Billie Z Cook cooks:
Oh yes, JJ, he lacks many things. But apparently that seems to aid in his success. This business you all call wine is completely f***ed up. Wine pros seem to want to keep people in the dark. Me […]

So George Bush dropped the bomb on a terror plot that was thwarted right after 9/11. One that included Los Angeles… hmmm… Los Angeles…….
This reminds of soap operas? When the wife? Is going to be left by the husband? So she fakes like she’s pregnant? So he stays. Then she has to go get pregnant […]