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Food and wine pairings, recipes, what to drink with what to eat – wine, beer and spirits

Lousy Summer

You know the summer’s been bad for the crops when you see those eggplants. Those are the ONLY and BIGGEST eggplant available in the local farmers’ market. If you’re not a gardener, eggplant grow like zuchini, usually with way too … Continue reading

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Guacamole and Red Wine ?!?!??

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 … Continue reading

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Red Wine and Sushi

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 … Continue reading

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How Not to Cook

So I come home from the grocery store, through the rain, and start putting away the groceries. I keep a chicken breast out for myself for lunch. Feeling inspired I melt a couple of tablespoons of butter, add some slivered … Continue reading

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Summer Sauces

When you get right down to it, most of the ingredients in our food our quite dull: meat, starch, veg. If you want to improve them you have to dress them up. Onions and nuts to the rice, butter and … Continue reading

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