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- Secret Wine Project Update… (03/19)
So those of you that are privy to what I’ve been working on lately (it deals with wine), here’s the news. Â It’s going well. Â I met with the owner today and it went well. Â Really well. Â My friend, Minami, went along with me - I needed some moral support and honestly, I didn’t know […]
- Wheat Woes - Required Reading.
A Global Need for Grain that Farms Can’t Fill (From the New York Times)It was Oil (with a capital ‘O’, these days), then it was specifically jet fuel,  then it was Global Warming (definitely capitalized - thanks, Al!), then it was corn, then it was water,  then it was bees (Colony Collapse Disorder); now it’s wheat […]
- Misreading the winelist.
Everyone has their war stories, and here are two of mine…
It was a quiet afternoon at Tabla, where I used to work. Â Maybe 3 or 4 o’clock - right about the time of day where restaurants start preparing for dinner service. Â This can be the most hectic part of the day, aside from the 8 […]
- Terry Theise Catalogs, etc.
For a while, Dungeons & Dragons was my fixation, as were (at different, often overlapping times) German board games, Tintin comics, Hitchcock flicks, Greek and Roman mythology, Tokyo ramen stalls, The Smiths and noise bands. Â I still love all of these things, but at certain points they were all I could think about. Â These days […]
