American Cheese
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Culture, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Maybe it reveals me as the pious food snob that I am, but today, in a Continental jet wafting over Winnemucca I stare at a sealed, steamed-up baggie labeled “Pierre Creations: Charbroiled Beef With American Cheese” wondering just what it would taste like. First, I was stunned to get a meal on a plane, the […]
Read More..>>Shopping for Valentines: The Kama Sutra, One Bite at a Time
Posted on February 14, 2007 - Filed Under France, Holiday, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
It is a mashup of Animal Crackers, Cracker Jacks, Willie Wonka and, uh, sex.
What ever happened to the idea of fun candy? As a kid I used to sit around with my pals biting the heads off of giraffes and the butts off hippos, giggling self-indulgently at my cleverness. Likewise with Cracker Jacks: one […]
Memories of Manka’s
Posted on December 30, 2006 - Filed Under California, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
In November I surprised my wife on her birthday. We got in the car and started driving, not to dinner in San Francisco but toward the Northern California coast, and not to our usual haunts in Muir or Stinson beaches. Not to Bolinas, the little town that counterculture built, now inhabited by a melange […]
Read More..>>The Plonk That Goes Plunk
Posted on May 17, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
The Plonk that Goes Plunk
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I have fond memories of driving to Sonoma County, California years ago and tasting good no-frills wines. I am sure some of their descendents now have $50 price tags. One of the places I loved was Sebastiani, a purveyer of fine large jugs of everyday plonk run by one of […]
The Bardolino Grape Fest and the Mad Poets Society (podcast)
Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Italy, Audio, Places, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
Singers: Bardolino Grape Festival - Photo © Russell Johnson
The Bardolino Grape Festival &
The Mad Poets Society
Lake Garda for Better or for Verse
This is the weekend of the Festa dell’Uva, the Grape Festival in Bardolino, Italy. Bardolino, on the shores of Lake Garda, is the focal point of the Bardolino D.O.C. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata,
the […]
