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great post, Meg! So psyched for your trip! Happy new year... :)
Countdown to Burgundy: Alice Feiring Recommends
Alice in the cellar at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti In advance of my trip to Burgundy this June, I’m asking the advice of learned others. Here, wine writer Alice Feiring weighs in. Alice is a champion of vins naturels, wines made with least meddling in the field and cellar. She travels extensi...
what night did you guys go to see Book? We were there on Friday Oct. 11. It was such a trip to see it in Texas!
Struggle in a minor key
Sigh. Yeah, the blog has been just about defunct lately. It just hasn't felt like home to me, anymore, and I can't help but feel that the person I am now is very different than the person who started Boots in the Oven back in 2005. I'm not sure what direction to go in, but I know I want to kee...
As William James would have said, truth is what works. As Gramsci would have said, truth is always revolutionary (meaning, in part, that truth is always "turning"). Americans' obsession with "incontrovertible fact" doesn't take into account that truth (as James and Gramsci would have agreed) is always relative. I think that one of the great issues with natural wine is how it translates from the Mediterranean temperament to the Anglo-Saxon (Lettie and Tom both seem to fall in the latter category, no?). Great post, Alice. Thanks for writing it.
Natural wine, belief and desire
All right. It has to happen. So let it flow. When I read Lettie Teague's lead in the WSJ, it was obvious where she was going. WILLIAM JAMES was not only a famous philosopher but a source of some pretty memorable quotes. One of his better-known observations, "Belief creates the actual fact," c...
if ever there were a "gorgeous" wine, this would be it, right? We drink a lot of this at home and it's our number-one wine for summer entertaining... thanks for taking time out to taste it, Meg. Great post (and great photo).
Cantele Negroamaro Rosato Salento IGT 2011
Cantele Negroamaro Rosato Salento IGT 2011 13% ABV | Price: about $11* This wine is gorgeous, in more ways than one. It’s made from 100% negroamaro, a dark-skinned grape from Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. The fruit was macerated for up to twenty-four hours to extract color and flavor compou...
thank goodness you are all okay! hang in there... and the newsletter looks fantastic...
The Rescue
Before the power went out on Monday night, for a few insane moments, I did think of heading down to Ten Bells. You know, winemakers in town, Crozes-Hermitage, that sort of thing. Then something went bang off of someone's roof top and I thought, hmm, maybe not. Started to work on Newsletter #2. T...
Contadino at Whole Foods? Sounds like a dream...
Mt. Etna Speaks (through Frank Cornelissen)
Welcome to a ridiculously rambling post about my day with Frank in London. "This morning is gone, the only thing I have is the future." Thus spoke Frank C. at the wine-centric restaurant Brawn, on a pre-natal street not far from the Bethnal Green tube stop. I don't know him for long, but that ...
Hag sameach! We spoke of our Ethel at our seder...
Seder Wines
Wish me luck. and
Alice, we had so much fun while you were here! I'm so glad that we managed to put this together and Texas is STILL talking about (and missing) Alice Feiring.
Thanks again for taking time out to visit with us...
We'll see you in NYC sooner than later...
abbraccio j
Texas Waltz
They said it couldn't be done, taking the שטעטל girl out of NYC and bringing her to Texas, Austin at that. But Dr. J. had a big idea. He joined Julio, an importer (D'amore) who imports José Pastor Selections and a Jeff, the suave and saavy wine bar owner (very safe drinking, I might add ). The...
we are so psyched for your visit! The whole town is abuzz about and buzzed on Alice Feiring! can't wait...
Callin' y'all in Austin & San Francisco
Go South West, West, they said. So I said Yes. I'm headed to Austin over the weekend where I'll be hanging, drinkin' and two-stepping with Mr. and Mrs. Dobianchi, aka Jeremy Parzen and the lovely Tracie B. If you're in town on Monday night please join in the wine dinner at VinoVino, informal ...
as much as I want to stop thinking about _natural_ and what it means, I cannot, Alice! There's something so utterly Pasolinian about the boy and his pimples and the chips... I love it and I love what you've done here. I also love that it happened in the Lyon train station (for all the reasons you know and the gig that NN+ played in Lyon a few years ago).
But it also made me think of something else: the word _nature_ and _natural_ have slightly and subtly different meanings in Romance languages. Aaaaa... I feel a post coming...
Great post...
What I Learned From A Pimply Kid in Lyon
There he was, a kid on the Lyon Part Dieu platform, eating a bag of Lays Nature. That's when it hit me, in that pimply boys hands was the answer to all of these folk complaining about the failings of the word natural as pertains to wine. Chips Nature. Crepes Nature. Yaourt Nature. One way t...
Next time I'm in La Jolla I'll send you some photos from our beautiful beaches! Great photos... one of my favorite things in the world to do is camminare sulla spiaggia!
camminare sulla spiaggia / to walk on the beach
Sandi of Whistlestop Cafe Cooking has sent out an invitation to share favorite things on Friday, any kind of thing: "Food, Clothes, Design, Poetry, Blogs~ anything goes!" So, here's my contribution to today's edition of Sandi's Friday Favorite Linky Party. You already know some of my favorite ac...
did you see that crazy article in the Times about how traders on Wall Street are fixated by curling? a real blood sport, that one...
An Early Morning Curling Fail in Austin, TX
What happens when you offer a FREE class in a popular cult sport to a bunch of people in a fitness-mad town? Lone Star Curling found out at 9:30 this morning. Logan and I showed up at Chapparal Ice, having just downed the first of our bounty of grapefruit, ready to learn how to elegantly launc...
wow, just seeing this now (as we've been distracted for the last few days with our move). What a great night that was! And that wine... always a treat...
The lobster and spaetzle look awesome (and will remember the word to the wise re egg whites!).
Thanks for the shout out (looking forward to ya'll coming over to our new place!)... :-)
Orange Wine and Valentine's.
A month or so ago, me and the wifey were out and about with the keen palated duo of Jeremy from Do Bianchi and his lovely fiancée (now wife!) Tracy P. We were passing a quite fine evening at Vino Vino and I was downshifting into coast mode when out of nowhere Jeremy popped up and announced that ...
wow, great bread in Austin? sounds too good to be true. I've so many questions: do they allow byob? do they allow take out of just the bread? Tracie B and I will have to make it up there... Josh Loving hipped me to your blog and I'm glad for it... :-)
Baguette House, Austin
I might as well stay in the same North Austin strip mall as my last post, right? Austin, I've been remiss. Somehow, inexcusably, I've not shown you one of my favorite low-cost lunches in town. I've probably been to Baguette House, oh, at least twenty times since they opened in the middle of 200...
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