Sparkling Creations
Thinking about New Year’s?Â
Consider this: Résonance, all pinot noir bubbly from a single estate vineyard.
Ultra dry, yet interlaced with lustrous notes of peach, minerals and persistent attitude ($57).
Soif Wine Bar.
Bad Train Horn Update
I just heard back from Mayor Don Lane who adds that he lives 5 blocks from the railroad tracks and is VERY aware of the problem.
There are some regulations affecting this whole thingie – take a look. The train operators are trying to work the wiggle room. You can provide your own feedback at this page.
Chinotto – the enlightened soda
If, like me, you’re a fan of Fernet Branca.….or perhaps Campari (more likely), then you’ll want to try Chinotto, a pungent and refreshing soda drink from the San Pellegrino folks.
I tried some with lunch at Gabriella the other day and found this intriguing drink to be almost magically refreshing. Yes, it’s a bit bittersweet—with a foundation of myrtle orange, the same prime ingredient in Campari. Actually, it starts out sweet, flirts with becoming a blend of coke and rootbeer, but then finishes with a crisp, almost citrusy tang.
But there’s much more going on in what tastes a lot like coca-cola, bitter oranges and a few mysterious sassafrasy and root top notes.
It’s quite delightful. And fun to say. Chinotto.
Misplaced Hysteria
Am I the only one who sees the complete disconnect between a prank—the sort that kids play on each other, or that occurs on Halloween—and a woman’s tragic decision to end her life?
Two Australian radio personalities are being heaped with scorn, and worse, because a phone call they made, pretending to be someone else, was understandably misinterpreted by the person who picked up the phone. Okay, so that person was fooled by the prank.
No one in her right mind would expect that person, upon discovering that she’d been fooled, to actually commit suicide over the matter. She might feel foolish. She might even be entitled to a lecture by her supervisor. But suicide?
Only a person with pre-existing “issues” (more…)
Holiday Biscotti for even the Notti
From those busy bakers at Companion Bakeshop comes this super delicious stocking stuffer, a six-pack (as it were) of artisenal biscotti perfumed with orange zest and studded with almonds and cranberries.
One lovely package for $4. Better get some extra to consume with your morning coffee!
Notti or nice? Why quibble. Everybody loves biscotti!
The Thinking Woman’s Brezsny @ Michael’s – Dec. 11
Michael’s on Main has recently embarked on an intriguing guest chef series, and bringing his own seasoned brand of cooking expertise to the game on December 11Â will be Tom Brezsny, co-owner of the original India Joze Restaurant.
[Tom here dowsing for rare mushrooms, photographer unknown.]
Brezsny was a mega-smart jack of all trades in the heyday of Joze, and it only makes delicious sense that some of the maestro’s techniques would have seeped into Brezsny’s multi-faceted DNA. Tom promises to revisit the “world of Pan-Asian pyrotechnics, (more…)
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.