not drinking poison in paris

If we define popular staples as foodstuffs that could conceivably be employed as a "health boost" icon in video games - things li...

In principal, one goal of anyone making wine naturally - organic, biodynamic, or anywhere in between - is heightened expression of terroir....

I would have some real thinking to do, if in the future I am ever given the choice between dining at a Japanese restaurant in Paris and com...

If there were awards for this sort of thing, one might well be given to my friend F's insane biodynamic micro-cuvée of oxidative Loire ...

On this blog I can sometimes give the impression that an unbridgeable gulf exists between restaurant industry people and people who merely ...

Between towns of Barolo and La Morra on the via San Pietro, there's a few picnic tables and a water fountain at a rest station named fo...

In need of dinner ingredients a few Sundays ago, I decided to check out the Marché de la  Place des Fêtes , high up above Belleville in the...

Throughout the recent trip to Piedmont, the Native Companion and my friend J's wife C would ask us before each scheduled visit to a vig...

I'm trying to remember where it was I first saw the enormous, old-school Italo-swag menu of Trattoria della Posta , a restaurant renow...

I'm not often told I should be more critical. At times however I do sense that in covering winemakers on this blog I tend to be a bit p...

An unfortunate consequence of the success of the  cave-à-manger concept - the hybridization of wine shop and restaurant / bar, ubiquitous ...

The great wines of Piedmont are a popular counter-argument to the concept of natural wine. As much as wine geeks like myself might advocate...

Midway through our stay in Piedmont I was delighted to add Monforte d'Alba to my list of towns home to better wine bars than Paris. On ...

As I shuffled home from work on a recent Friday afternoon with my face in my iPhone, holding a sack of cheese, a familiar Australian voice ...

The wine list at 5ème bistro à vin Les Pipos is not presented when you take a table. Nor is it always presented when you ask for it; ofte...

J and I pulled up in his in-laws' Audi at Azienda Agricola Bovio at what we were pretty sure was the agreed-upon time. There had been ...