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- Blog Party#8: Brunch---reminder
Today's the day! Your Blog Party#6: Brunch entries are due TODAY. All your down-sized sweet and savory breakfasty-y dishes, and fabulous drinks (alcoholic and non) should find their way to me no later than midnight tonight (that would be Eastern...
- 32 Students!
My wine classes have typically had a dozen or so students. So imagine my surprise when my dean wrote to tell me that I had 29 students for my current course. And then imagine it when I showed up last night and found that I had 32. And only two of them...
- Don't Drop That Fork
My co-worker Aaron sent me this link to Dinner in the Sky. It's not airplane food but a table suspended 50 meters in the air "by a team of professionals." Twenty-two diners get the table for eight hours for about 8000 euros. Don't worry if it...
- 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...
- All By Myself
Dinner for One I don't often cook for myself. One obvious reason for this is I don't live by myself. But it's also the case that I rarely cook on weeknights; lunch is usually sufficient for my appetite. But the...
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Random Web Links
You've heard of alternative closures for bottles? Today's Fart Party comic offers alternative openers.
My co-worker Young sent me a link to these French Wine 101 PDFs. They offer very basic information about key French regions.
People assume that we eat fancy meals every night, but we don't. I'm usually not even hungry come dinnertime; lack of appetite is a standard feature of computer programmers. The people who do trot out a drool-worthy meal every night are our friends Jen and Mike, and she chronicles those dishes at Last Night's Dinner
- Blog Party#8: Brunch---reminder
Today's the day! Your Blog Party#6: Brunch entries are due TODAY. All your down-sized sweet and savory breakfasty-y dishes, and fabulous drinks (alcoholic and non) should find their way to me no later than midnight tonight (that would be Eastern...
- 32 Students!
My wine classes have typically had a dozen or so students. So imagine my surprise when my dean wrote to tell me that I had 29 students for my current course. And then imagine it when I showed up last night and found that I had 32. And only two of them...
- Don't Drop That Fork
My co-worker Aaron sent me this link to Dinner in the Sky. It's not airplane food but a table suspended 50 meters in the air "by a team of professionals." Twenty-two diners get the table for eight hours for about 8000 euros. Don't worry if it...
- 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...
- All By Myself
Dinner for One I don't often cook for myself. One obvious reason for this is I don't live by myself. But it's also the case that I rarely cook on weeknights; lunch is usually sufficient for my appetite. But the...