In Vino Veritas

I went to Occidental over the weekend with the explicit goal of achieving waffle nirvana. How did this happen you ask? My cohort in crime and I beelined it to a restaurant called Howard Station Café. Actually the route was more like the path a kid with ADHD would take if you let him loose in a candy store (makes me think of the onomatopoeia buzzzzz, which is just like a bee, so there you have it). When told we…

  I went to a wine tasting last Wednesday. It was a blast. The Royal Wine Group and Herzog Wine Cellars put together their International Food & Wine Festival at the Hyatt Regency Central Plaza.     The event was all Kosher, and entailed a bevy of delicious food choices. There were tiny little bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, ribeye, amazing…

(disclaimer: any run-on sentences in this post are intentional… others, maybe not so much, but this one yes. If you cannot handle reading run-on sentences try pinching a body part while reading this. It may help occupy the grammar pain center of your brain just enough to get you through it. I highly recommend attempting to read this regardless, because it’s fun and I wrote it damn it. Thank you for being you and for your time, and I…

Smack dab in the middle of the holidays and some people are lucky enough to have this time off. I was able to sleep in this morning, and then take a leisurely stroll to the coffee shop. I sat down with a peanut butter cookie my mother baked, a book on probabilities in everyday life, and my coffee. It was a pleasant morning. I then let my mind ponder writing about wine. Yesterday I had an aged Rioja red wine…

Today I will write about wine, just wine, no minions or woolly mammoths. I won’t bend your ear with a chapter on Interpersonal Relationships, or how I got up at the butt crack of dawn to run for five hours. In fact, I am only going to talk about wines that are less than $10. So here it goes… There was a giant ogre that lived beside a hill. Hah! Just kidding It has come to my attention that people want affordable wine…