My recent visit to Alinea, the temple of modernist cuisine in the U.S., prompted some thoughts about whether molecular gastronomy is maintaining it’s radical edge.
Wine Review: Van Till Family Farm Winery Norton Reserve Missouri 2013
Norton is Missouri’s official grape and, for a grape many wine lovers have never heard of, it has a long, storied history. In the 19th
What’s the Matter with Writing about Good Wine?
Blake Gray wrote a post about a month ago that still has me scratching my head. The post begins by praising the Washington Post’s Dave
Lovely Unloveliness
Andrew Jeffords comments, “The greatest wines often have a lovely unloveliness at their heart”. Some old friends and I chewed over (the verb is accurate)
Resonance: A Measure of Wine Quality
I’ve been thinking a lot about Martin Seel’s concept of resonance as one of the keys to wine quality. Think of the rustling of leaves,
Wine Review: Amigoni Urban Winery Cabernet Franc Missouri 2014
Missouri has a long history of winemaking dating back to the 19th Century. In fact, before prohibition Missouri was the second largest wine producing state
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 