I’m sick of it all. In times like these, I’ve decided to do the only sensible thing I can - start a beer, wine, and food blog.
Nothing will change here, I just want a place to keep all my gastronomical musings, which at the moment are getting lost to posterity through sheer laziness on my [...]

Filed under: Beer, Food, Wine | 2 Comments »

Yesterday afternoon, I was jonesing for a snack. Not just any snack, mind you - oh no! A chocolatey snack. One of my coworkers, sensing my need (or perhaps hearing me say, “Jeeze, I could really go for some chocolate!”) pulled something from her desk drawer. I know what you’re thinking, but no, it wasn’t [...]

Filed under: Food, Funny | 5 Comments »

From the Wall Street Journal this time:

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they’re a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a [...]

Filed under: "We're All Gonna Die!", Economics, Food | 2 Comments »

We’re not the only ones facing a food crisis. A story I read this morning indicates that Japan is finding its shelves emptied of certain commodities as well:
MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter [...]

Filed under: Bankrupting America, Economics, Food, The Perils of Globalization | No Comments »

You may recall that I posted something last month about how we couldn’t find any bread flour at our local Sam’s Club. I found it odd, and wondered if it had anything to do with the economic/oil/food crisis we are slip-sliding into, or if it was just a hiccup in the supply chain.
It appears that shortages [...]

Filed under: Bankrupting America, Economics, Food | No Comments »

The New York Times recently ran a story about the growing number of young men and women who are choosing to return to the land to eke out a living, growing organic produce and livestock or making artisinal cheese:
Last week, Mr. Shute could be found here, elbow-deep in wet compost two hours north of New [...]

Filed under: Agrarianism, Food | 1 Comment »

A new study finds that healthy people (you skinny, non-smoking dweebs) cost MORE health care over a lifetime than us fatty fatersons do.
Smokers are pushing costs even lower by popping off earlier than any other group. The comically obese (is that a category) still live only four years less on average than healthy, sprout-eating, doughnut [...]

Filed under: Beer, Food, Funny | 3 Comments »

I’m not a wine snob. Not that I would mind. The fact remains that if I was faced with a blank form labeled “tasting notes” I’m virtually positive that I wouldn’t be able to write down with a straight face any of the normal flavor characteristics. I don’t know what leather tastes like, I couldn’t find [...]

Filed under: Food, Wine | 2 Comments »