What do you get when you cross Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, the most recent Indiana Jones with a tale of fraud in fine wine? The apparent answer is: the movie version of The [...]
In 2005, the EU and US reached a bilateral accord to end a round of negotiations that had lasted twenty years. One of the significant parts of the agreement was that American wines could no [...]
Because you've been such good sports when it comes to brussels sprouts, I thought I might attempt to take it up a notch or two. And by this I mean, I'm going to share one of my favorite ways [...]
Reading about wine may be fun but there’s a lot to be said for tasting it. Many wine stores offer tastings, which are always free in New York and may be the best priced tastings for our [...]
You've likely walked past the diminutive adzuki a hundred times in the bin section of your local market. Next time stop, fill a bag, and take a few hundred tiny red pebbles home with you. [...]
Last Friday, there was a sleepy little site called This is why you’re fat that welcomed eight visitors. Today, the site will have over one million visitors!! But that vertiginous traffic [...]
Buying crudite and rosé at the same time might help New York solve its budgetary woes. Or so Governor Paterson thinks. That’s why he has proposed to allow food stores to sell wine, a [...]
It seems like a good time to post a winter favorites list. You all helped me out greatly last week with your suggestions about where I should go when I get to Tokyo and Kyoto - what better [...]
“Rampant price discounting in the wine industry means 2009 will be party time for wine drinkers while winemakers will be left with the hangover.” Low prices! Party time! Love it! Oh, [...]
We haven’t done one of these for a while. So when I saw this photo today in a producer’s presentation, I thought it was about time. (Click to enlarge) Hit the comments with your [...]
There are a number of things I nearly always have in my kitchen. Top of the list: a can of coconut milk, onions, nuts, and spices. This puts me just a vegetable or two away from a flavorful [...]
The number one most emailed article right now over at the Times is entitled, “Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog.” It describes the improbable but wildly popular dish known as the [...]
Remember when I was sick last month? Well, after a couple days of nothing but crackers and popsicles, it was miso soup that eventually brought me back to the land of functioning human beings. [...]
Last year, supermodel Gisele Bundchen caused a stir by sipping wine during the Super Bowl. Some even thought this act caused the Patriots’ star quarterback Tom Brady, her beau, to crumble, [...]
Christine Saahs of Nikolaihof was the first to apply Rudolph Steiner’s philosophy to viticulture, thus cultivating her vines in Austria’s Wachau region biodynamically. The Im [...]
We all know bigger is better. No, not that way; get your mind out of the gutter. When it comes to wine, the reason is at least twofold. First, a bigger bottle has a lower carbon footprint per [...]
One of my friends told me on chat that he’s bringing a bottle of booze to the office tomorrow to pop after the inauguration. He didn’t say what he’s bringing in. Here’s a [...]
Everybody always wants a good wine under $10. And that’s never been more true than now. The sad thing is that it’s so hard to find good wines under $10. But here are three reds from [...]
SPIT: presidential pardon Of all the names circulating for a presidential pardon, few lists would include Fred Franzia for his federal offense (and, no, as much as reader Alberto would like, it [...]
After learning that the wine vote carried Obama to victory, it’s no surprise that wine writers can barely contain the corks from popping until next week. John and Dottie dig up this [...]
Food & Wine magazine's Emily Kaiser wrote an article in November that highlighted two of my favorite things: Steve Sando's Rancho Gordo heirloom beans, and a bean recipe from NOPA - a [...]
What do Diana Krall and Sammy Hagar have in common? Not a lot from a musical perspective, that’s for sure. But both the performers have detailed wine requests built into their show [...]
Unlike our impossible food-wine pairings, pizza is one of those very possible wine pairings. But not in one country: Italy. Jeremy Parzen pointed out this shocking claim in the comments of a [...]
We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar (part one is here). John has offered a free issue from his backlist to any Dr. [...]
On Wednesday I went on Fox Business–for the second time in a week! The video for this segment is available (see it by clicking on the image at right). We continued the discussion of [...]