Cooking
Just noticed this link on Slashdot.
- Food/wine Pairing Tasting Notes
Here is a question I often ponder. If you are going to suggest a wine to go with a particular dish (or vice versa), why would you just write a regular tasting note and not reference the dish? That thought crept into my mind again as I noticed this post...
- Hold On To Your Wine
You and a friend sit down to dinner and open a bottle of wine. You eat, you talk, you drink, but when the meal ends, the bottle isn't empty. You don't feel like finishing it, but the sink's drain is an ignoble end for good wine. You could...
- Random News Bits
A couple of food-related news items I've noticed in the last couple days. Labels on commercial olive oil may exploit the lack of regulations about the various olive oil terms: from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. As always, knowing who's producing...
- New Aoc Regulations?
Noticed this article on Wine Spectator's site. Basically, a French official has proposed changes to the AOC system France has used for some time, which has in turn served as the model for many other European wine systems. What I find interesting...
- A Day Too Late
I just noticed the following article at Wine Spectator's web site: pairing wine and Halloween candy. It's actually a pretty interesting article, since it reveals a lot about what the wine press looks for in the ever-elusive perfect food and wine...
Cooking
High-Tech Ice Wine
Just noticed this link on Slashdot.
Sounds like a cool setup, and I'm certainly all for someone trying to make great ice wine.
- Food/wine Pairing Tasting Notes
Here is a question I often ponder. If you are going to suggest a wine to go with a particular dish (or vice versa), why would you just write a regular tasting note and not reference the dish? That thought crept into my mind again as I noticed this post...
- Hold On To Your Wine
You and a friend sit down to dinner and open a bottle of wine. You eat, you talk, you drink, but when the meal ends, the bottle isn't empty. You don't feel like finishing it, but the sink's drain is an ignoble end for good wine. You could...
- Random News Bits
A couple of food-related news items I've noticed in the last couple days. Labels on commercial olive oil may exploit the lack of regulations about the various olive oil terms: from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. As always, knowing who's producing...
- New Aoc Regulations?
Noticed this article on Wine Spectator's site. Basically, a French official has proposed changes to the AOC system France has used for some time, which has in turn served as the model for many other European wine systems. What I find interesting...
- A Day Too Late
I just noticed the following article at Wine Spectator's web site: pairing wine and Halloween candy. It's actually a pretty interesting article, since it reveals a lot about what the wine press looks for in the ever-elusive perfect food and wine...