ShareAn important lesson from the age of food-and-wine enlightenment is that when a recipe called for wine, it does not mean the stuff they sell in supermarkets as “cooking wine.” Nor does it mean some half-consumed bottle that’s been in your fridge (or worse in your cabinet over the stove) for a year. Wine [...]

ShareI ordered the lamb; she had the duck breast, grilled and sliced. I was going to go for the Chateauneuf du Pape, a red from France that would have been the perfect mate for that duck. But my dining companion wanted something big, lush, and local. Plus, it was my birthday dinner and I was [...]

ShareUntil I drank my way through an edifying class on Italian wine at my local wine bar Vino Rosso, I thought I knew all about Montepulciano. But I was oh, so wrong.
Because I’d been there, I knew that Montepulciano is a town in Italy. It sits on the top of a hill in the southwestern [...]

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Model Resolutions, continued:
#2 Drink More Jumilla
I’m queuing this one up for next year, since I resolved this January to eat more foie gras in 2007. My inspiration comes from a delicious dinner at Ad Hoc, the new family-style, one-menu-for-all eatery opened somewhat recently by [...]