The Occidental Tourist
- July 14, 2014
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…
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Wine fest, Yay!
- February 28, 2014
read moreI 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…
Love
- February 14, 2014
(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…
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Bubbles!!!
- December 27, 2013
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…
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They make delicious wine for less than $10 dollars?
- December 12, 2013
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…
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