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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Old wines are uncool, and therefore cheap

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This wine was sooo cheap Last week I had perhaps the greatest set of wines I've ever had at a single meal, and considering the freeb...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Alicia's Tamales Los Mayas wraps the American dream in cornhusks

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A couple weeks ago, Alicia Villaneuva watched with pride as a helper drove a small cart -- much heavier than a Costco grocery cart, but no...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Ken Burns' Prohibition: Good television, careful politics

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This is what law enforcement was up to in 1922. Courtesy New York Daily News. Ken Burns' "Prohibition," which starts next ...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

My "Breaking Bad" pilgrimage to Los Pollos Hermanos

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I had the good fortune to visit New Mexico recently, ostensibly to taste my way through the impressive portfolio of Gruet, the state's...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Biodynamic and natural wine producers: What's up with French oak?

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Biodynamics and "natural" wine share some philosophy. Adherents of both believe, essentially, that a wine should represent the l...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wine producers aren't allowed to use "100% grapes" on label

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What's in your wine? Producers aren't required to list everything that's in it, which is why so many people wrongly fixate o...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

"Wine From Here" documentary proves terroir doesn't matter

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Terroir is exalted by the natural wine movement. Everyone who prefers native yeast and eschews excess ripeness and new oak says they do so...
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