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My bacon and egg risotto caused a little ripple in the food blogosphere. Check out elkit’s Flickr photo and Jen’s write-up to read about their versions. In a sort of culinary feedback loop, their versions may inspire me to make it again soon.
Tom Wark, whose wine blog Fermentations is a popular destination, has helped start a new blog named Wine Without Borders that aims to spread the word about American legislation that prevents a retailer in one state from shipping to a customer in another. Those laws give the consumer fewer choices and the retailer less opportunity to make money.
You can follow boring Twitter feeds like mine, but the 140-character recipes in cookbook’s feed are much more interesting. Here’s just one of her tasty tweets: “Jam: boil 3c berries, 2t grated ginger, 1/4c lemon juice. Blend 1pkg pectin, 1c sugar. Heat all to rolling boil. Fill clean jars & boil 15m.” I’ve done this from time to time with wine reviews, but maybe her stream will inspire me to do it more. (via Jason Kottke)
- Go To Jojo
Over the years, I have urged my Bay Area readers to go to Jojo in Oakland. Sometimes I’ve done so overtly, but I have always kept a link to it on the right side of this blog. Melissa and I have many happy memories tied to the restaurant and its...
- Sens And Super Natural Cooking
I don’t like to review anything whose creators are my good acquaintances or friends, though you could find counterexamples. If I don’t like something, I have to choose between damaging a friendship or being dishonest with you. If I like something...
- Wine Gadgets The World Needs
Lore Sjöberg, who often writes humorous pieces for Wired, has put his satirical pen to paper and pondered the wine gadgets missing from the world. An automatic wine twirler? A tooth-mounted flavor sensor? A temporal acceleration device to age your...
- Barrel Alternatives In Today's Chronicle
Last week, one of my students asked me about a practice he had heard of where winemakers add chips to wine instead of putting it in barrel. I replied, “I’m pretty sure that the Chronicle will run a lead story about that topic next week.”...
- Batali's Blog
Some of you may recall Mario Batali’s June article about food bloggers. It caused quite a stir in our thriving community, even though he really vented about one non-fact that he wanted to clarify, changing a potentially interesting article into...