For those about to walk!
….we salute you.
What sort of public prankstering can you pull off with a 4 inch strip of duct tape? What about 8 inches? OK, you can use scissors. Oooh! and glitter. But nothing else.
Let’s see, what happened in the world of wine today, this Thursday, the Thursday before Thanksgiving? Nothing worth […]

No less than 4 times today was I confronted with what I thought to be smart, considerate, progressive minded people extolling the virtues of Starbuck’s. The last comment was about a woman’s guilty pleasure - the Chantico. No, not a new mid-size from Kia. Chantico is Starbuck’s double down into the luxury chocolate market. More […]

I just had to renew my Washington state Food Handlers Permit yesterday. So, I’m cruising my bloglines and was intrigued with an article in Slate today about glove wearing in restaurants, and how chefs shouldn’t have to wear them. It bugged me. She made some great points about glove misuse. But it still bugged me. […]

Maybe you’ve been distracted by a Bonny Doon label before, not your usual gold-edged, flanged and waxed grocery store trash. They are……cool. Wha? In this business? Tattooed ladies, flying saucers, and monkeys in fezes. Every label practically giggles, Buy me or don’t. I don’t care. I’ll have a good time without your ass.
These are […]

Halvah is one of those deli staples, the square log in the refrigerator everybody walks by, scrunching up a face. To put this Middle Eastern dessert in western terms: a sweet made of ground sesame seeds and honey, sometimes with added pistachios, that has the texture of a very dry nougat and is light as […]

In a perfect world, we’d all have time to raise our own fowl, hand feed them dried corn, collect their eggs in the morning, and let them roam free in the back yard all before we humanely decapitate and pluck them for food. A good life for a chicken that was destined for dinner.
Then we’d […]

  My friend and I were eating at the Palace Kitchen last night. White gazpacho was a knockout. Campari & sodas all around. Then this table of people show up, accessories chosen to make sure everyone knew they had money, bottle of 2000 first growth Bordeaux included.
  Oh, you didn’t know people do this? […]

Holy Shit, When Did Monsanto Come to Rule the World?
  We(the royal we) read this post on boingboing.net the other day when we were not writing, but we were consuming copious amounts of tortilla chips and Cinzano Bianco. It was about agro-creeps Monsanto and how they are trying to become Lords of the Pigs.
Monsanto Patents […]

  I know you come here for food and wine related stuff. But in a previous incarnation I was a film reviewer. NOT a critic, I hate that word. I think that tells you a bit about me, too. I couch all of my wine recommendations with the phrase, "If you like this sort of […]

  Last night, at our friends Ted and Lily’s place, we had summer Northwest surf and turf in the form of country ribs and grilled salmon that Ted had caught up north. Lily’s one of my friends that I can get really nerdy with about food.
  And I got this recipe for Gulab Jamun (referenced […]