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Don't get me wrong: the Native Companion and I certainly appreciated our visit to Bodegas Gonzalez Byass, which occupies a seemingly ...

Aggrieved chefs and their supporters routinely cite, among the evils of journalism, the neophilic tendency of critics to descend upon a n...

What little information was available indicated  Casa Bigote was among the best restaurants in Sanlucar. In our defense, Sanlucar is a c...

I tend to distrust large restaurants - places where, if you scream, no one would hear a sound. Even at the grandest, most expensive large...

What does it mean for savvy young Parisian restaurateurs to advertise their appreciation for post-war cabaret, as chef Marc Cordonnier an...

A depressing reality sinks in when one attempts study of sherry, or, for that matter, of Spanish and Portuguese wine in general: ...

I take it as a given that I am not part of a target audience for Le Fooding , the French culinary media outlet. If Le Fooding were princi...

I think I know what was going through the Native Companion's mind when she booked us a hotel in Chipiona on our first visit to Andalu...

By way of introducing a series of posts about sherry and various visits to Andalusia, I thought I'd relay a conversation I recently...

Barbecue, arguably, is for Americans what wine is for the French.  What the subjects share is a dialectical emphasis on local cultural t...

The stakes are high in Paris when an established, beloved restaurant like cave-à-manger pioneer Le Verre Volé opens a seafood sequel, in...

When I arranged to harvest with Montgueux Champagne winemaker Manu Lassaigne this September, I had convenience in mind. His is the best ...

In writing about Paris restaurant openings, I'm accustomed to grousing about stillborn fads and failed trendhopping. ( Meatballs , an...

When asked what makes a wine natural, I often reply that a wine is natural when it is bought by natural wine buyers. I'm only being h...

Given that this is a wine blog, I usually avoid posting on chef career moves. The practice risks stoking the already outsize demand in Pa...

Remember that scene in Wayne's World , where Wayne and Garth do impressions of various US states, before being confounded by the unsa...