Industry consolidation is not only a problem in the wine business. Craft beer also suffers from the monopoly practices of big beer companies buying out
Category: Contemporary Food Culture
Can Hot Soup Beat the Heat?
We’re tasting wine in Southwestern Idaho where daytime temperatures are often well over 100 degrees and the heat of the day may be at 6:00
Rogue Food: Farm to Table in Southern Oregon
The farm to table thing has metastasized from fetish to fad to flim-flam. What began as a foodie obsession with freshness and an anti-corporate ethos
Build it Half-Assed and They Will Come
This week we are happily exploring the Umpqua Valley wine region of Oregon which is anchored by the town of Roseburg. For the 4th of July
What’s the Point?
René Redzepi, famed chef of Copenhagen’s Noma, recently opened a pop up restaurant in Tulum, in the jungles of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, for a seven-week
The New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro: Mom and Pop Excellence
We’re camped in Southern Oregon tasting wine but today the story is about food. A few minutes north of Ashland on a quiet, semi-rural highway
