The Plonk That Goes Plunk
Posted on May 17, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
The Plonk that Goes Plunk AUDIO MP3 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 [...]
The Bardolino Grape Fest and the Mad Poets Society (podcast)
Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Audio, Food & Wine, Italy, Places | 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 [...]
A Beerless Oktoberfest and the Secret Life of Fleas – Podcast
Posted on September 15, 2005 - Filed Under Video, Audio, Food & Wine, Germany, Misc. | Leave a Comment
AUDIO-MP3 Oktoberfest starts in September, this weekend in fact. I went to Oktoberfest a couple of years ago and did not have a beer. Nope, not one biermadchen’s tear of frothy brew, a sacrilege for which I will surely rot in some Faustian teetotler’s hell. But I did witness something that I had read about [...]
Up and Down, Back & Forth, Sideways
Posted on May 3, 2005 - Filed Under Audio, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
Napa Valley – Photo ©2005 Russell Johnson I have spent way too much time going up and down and back and forth on airplanes in the last few months: Europe, Asia, Mexico, Arizona, adjusting my torso to the molded plastic chairs of airports, stuffing myself into winged metal skins like a Farmer John wiener, breathing [...]
Read More..>>Huntsmen’s Food, New York City
Posted on November 12, 2004 - Filed Under Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
Huntsmen’s Food NYC The nip was in the air as we sipped and dipped and otherwise savored our way through New York. Crisp, on the cusp of winter weather inspires soothing meals in warm glowing settings. My favorite “warm feeling†restaurants in NYC where you can taste refined food from the hunt include: Jean Georges, [...]
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