Category Archives: food

Guacamole and Red Wine ?!?!??

June 24, 2010 – 3:03 pm

So what do you drink with guacamole?
This time of year the avocados are pouring into the stores. Who can resist them? And anyway, they’re good for you.
The rich (i.e. fatty or oily) nature of the fruit overpowers just about evrything. My instinct was a brisk sauvignon blanc but it couldn’t cut it [...]

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Red Wine and Sushi

June 7, 2010 – 10:53 am

This is a typical dish at Wasabi Sabi. They pay a lot of attention to presentation.
Wasabi Sabi, the name of the restaurant is clearly a pun, a play on the Japanese asthetic ideal of impermanence. The interior design, of the restaurant, the presentation, are all suited to this ideal.
A few years ago, I [...]

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