I know a couple – early 40’s, successful, wine connoisseurs – who is so smitten with rosé wine they actually dedicate a whole day to it. They toil all week, drinking chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, and then when Sunday rolls around they spend it paying homage to the pink stuff.
Not just any pink stuff, though. [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 30, 2008
Rosé Sunday
June 28, 2008
Survey Says…
I ran across a blog last night (I don’t even know how I got there… I started on one blog, a link from my brother, and once I got there, I saw another interesting link which led me to another blog, and of course, that blog had a cool link. So 50 layers in, I [...]
June 28, 2008
Pay it Forward
In the course of dining out the last couple of days, two things struck me as worth mentioning.
The first surprise came when I received the check at Bombay Spice, a restaurant claiming to “redefine” Indian cuisine by replacing fattening gee and cream with olive oil and fat free yogurt. That’s a whole other post but [...]
June 25, 2008
Sink or Swim
It’s here! My new baby…my new sink! Oh joy, oh joy.
I finally picked out a sink after debating it for, oh I don’t know, 3 years? What kind of sink to get? Stainless steel or one of those new composite sinks by Blanco?
Maybe I should stick with the porcelain coated cast iron sink that came [...]
June 22, 2008
Word Nerds Rejoice!
I managed to escape the bookstore without buying a single cookbook. Yes, I know, a minor miracle. There is a simple explanation, though. I ran out of time before I could peruse the cooking aisle. I did, however, make a contribution to my fellow food professionals by purchasing a reference book on the history of [...]
June 20, 2008
Outed…Sort of…
It’s true…. I’m writing for PHOENIX Magazine now. I had only told a couple of friends because I wanted to see my name in print before I started telling the world. Just because I turned in articles, didn’t mean they would soak up ink on a page, I thought. But today, a friend forwarded me [...]
June 18, 2008
South’s Gonna Rise Again…
Frankly, my dear, I would say it already has, based on the number of southern cookbooks released in the past couple of years. The newest addition, is called Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, by Martha Hall Foose.
A couple of months ago, another southern cookery book, Bon Appetit, Y’all, by Virginia Willis came out and before [...]
June 17, 2008
Say Cheese…
This annoying little cold won’t go away, and when I’m sick, I crave two, no, three, things. A smashed grilled cheese sandwich, a bowl of tomato soup with saltines, and a bottle of ginger ale.
Thinking about the grilled cheese sandwich reminded me that everyone has a spin on the classic. The grilled cheese of my [...]
June 16, 2008
Smooth Operator
Do you know how many smoothie cookbooks are floating around? I found more than 20 on Amazon alone. I only have one smoothie book (I can feel a trip to the bookstore coming on….) by those Corpening twins who owned a catering company called Thymes Two in San Francisco and went on to pen a [...]
June 14, 2008
Welcome to Pen and Fork…
The journey begins with a fork…
I’ve finally decided to start blogging. Should I welcome myself to the 21st century or should I be careful what I wish for? I first want to thank Corinna for helping me get Pen & Fork at WordPress….
Now that I have a blog, I’m drawing a blank about what to [...]
