Category: Food and Drink
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We moved into our new place in a hurry last year and never really finished decorating. Our old place had molding all over the living room walls, making it difficult to hang anything, so although we had plenty of pieces for our hallways and smaller rooms, we didn’t have anything big enough for our new…
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W. Blake Gray recently had a fascinating article in the Chronicle’s outstanding* Wine section on Jonathan Newman, chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), and his efforts to inject a passion for wine into the great, gray bureaucracy that controls all liquor sales in the Keystone State. This week, the Chron published my letter…
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That’s right–Austrian wine. We’ve been drinking a lot of Gruner Veltliner over the past year, thanks to John at the Orleans Grapevine, who recommended it to us last summer. It’s a consistently excellent (and inexpensive) white, and very different from most varietals we’re familar with in the U.S. It’s a subtle wine–New Zealand Sauv Blanc…
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Slate's Kate Taylor takes on the gaseous ball of hype that is "French Women Don't Get Fat." Taylor's conclusion? The essence of Guiliano's book is the claim that women can trick themselves into experiencing what is actually self-denial as a kind of pleasure. She never questions that most women, if they wish to be attractively…
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The contrast between the suckiness of 2004 in general and the perfection of today in particular is, shall we say, stark. Woke up and had a beautiful, quiet time unstuffing stockings and unwrapping packages with Amy. Highlights include getting an iPod, which lives up to the hype and then some (Amy got the HP version,…