not drinking poison in paris

Recent blog silence is due to a dastardly confluence of unavoidable misfortunes: the death of my laptop, and men's fashion week. I wasn...

It occurred to me the other evening, during my first visit to 12ème neighborhood bistro l'Ebauchoir with my visiting friends M and A, ...

Much of the natural wine I rave about on this blog is arguably the result of vignerons' efforts to recall  - under whatever banner, org...

Upon descending into Ludwig Bindernagel 's nascent cave space at his chambre d'hôte in Poligny , we encountered - someone else'...

The other day, as I was leaving the comically cramped rear dining area of beloved 2ème Auvergnat canteen Le Petit Vendôme , I noticed a bot...

One thing I noted in the Jura was the relative abundance of artisanal ice creams I saw advertised in village after village there. It wasn...

Paris' natural wine scene, like any subculture, can get a bit repetitive. I've been in town just two quick years, and already I fin...

In Donald Barthelme 's short story " The Glass Mountain ," the narrator scales the face of a mountain, enduring bitter winds ...

Before our tasting at Domaine Macle in Château-Chalon we stopped for a picnic below the town.   Ludwig Bindernagel had told us the ni...

Our dinner together being planned for the night after, we asked our vigneron host Ludwig Bindernagel if he had any suggestions for where t...

While tooling around the Jura on our bikes, we stayed at a new chambre d'hôte in Poligny  called Les Jardins Sur Glantine , run by vig...

Not far from the concert venue l'Olympia in the central 9ème is a conspicuously classic-looking bistro-à-vin called Les Bacchantes , p...

There's nothing worse than an overplotted vacation. So in planning our recent jaunt through the Jura, we decided to err on the side of ...

In Arbois, en route to Poligny, we encountered a big random brocante (flea market). Our friend E rejoiced, because she was finally able to...

A side effect of habitual contact with food and wine criticism - as a writer or as a reader - is susceptibility to the delusional belief th...

No way we could have done our Jura Bike Trip without our friend J. A caviste / wine director with heaps of experience leading bike tours in...