News items you might have missed this week, some amusing, some not so much: Here are some useful wine-pairing principles from Palate Press. The Wine
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Innovation: Good and Bad
Comfort vodka anyone? A new trend seems to be sweeping the restaurant/bar scene–gummy vodka, cookie dough vodka, bubblegum vodka, chocolate milk vodka… I have no
The Wisdom of Foodies
Epicurus, the Roman philosopher who lent his name to the pursuit of the pleasures of food, was not merely a philosopher who also loved food.
San Diego Wine Tasting: A New Venue
It is a cold, hard fact that many wine lovers will never taste most of the world’s best wines—they are simply too expensive for most
Review: 2004 Michel and Stephane Ogier Lancemont, Cote Rotie
I tasted this wine at a blind tasting under conditions that did not allow me to spend an entire evening with the wine as I
Amuse Bouche
News items you might have missed this week, some amusing, some not so much: The Anxiety of Influence. Molecular gastronomy expert Grant Achatz, in his
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 