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How to Find Authenticity in Vegas

Las Vegas. The city of faux weddings, faux Elvis,  faux France, and faux pas. Where the inauthentic is genuine and the real a façade. What are the chances of finding anything legit, with integrity, in...

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Woolgrowers: Basque Cooking in the U.S.

The Basque region of Northeastern Spain  (extending across the border into France) has acquired a reputation as a culinary mecca. Long a destination for their unique approach to Tapas, in the 1980’s...

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Stuck in Lodi With Lots of Good Wine

Harney Lane Winery Tasting Room and Gardens If you think of Lodi at all you probably remember it as that place in which John Fogerty was stuck, again. If you’re a wine snob you may know Lodi as the...

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Road Food

Well, it is finally here. After 2 years of preparation, unloading a lifetime’s accumulation of possessions, and 1 year of learning the ins and outs of living in a box on wheels, Edible Arts is finally...

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Trolling for Fry Bread

I’ve been trolling through Arizona looking for fry bread for the past week. See what I found at my travel blog Roving Decanter.

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The Search Continues

My constant search for the Perfect Pinot continues with a week long visit to Willamette Valley in Oregon. See my report at Roving Decanter.

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In Search of Ambiente

When trying to understand a wine and its significance there are four dimensions from which one can draw. There is of course the taste and aromatics of the wine—the sort of thing you find in a tasting...

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On The Road Again

After 5 weeks, 78 winery visits, and about 550 wines tasted (yes we spit), the research for our guide to the Willamette Valley is finished. So today we say goodbye to these wonderful people, their...

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The Thai That Blinds: Pok Pok PDX

I’ve got one shot, one night in Portland, and way to many good restaurants from which to choose. A first world problem to be sure but a problem nevertheless—the tyranny of choice. I suppose the best...

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Ciao New Orleans

Tomorrow we leave New Orleans after 10 days of crawfish, boudin, po’boys and a little jazz. This is a great food culture, always interesting whether you’re spending $100 or $10 per plate. Good food is...

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Peasant Food Texas Style: Chicken Fried Steak

Peasant food is fascinating. At worst it is inedible. By necessity made from humble, common ingredients often of poor quality, when prepared carelessly it’s worse than fast food. But when prepared with...

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Texas Hill Country Wine Road (not everything is bigger in Texas)

The View from Pedernales Winery Big hats, big trucks, big sky, big personalities, and of course a large land mass. There is some truth to the slogan “everything is bigger in Texas”. Even their wine...

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Small Cafés and Hole-in-the-Wall Restos Best of 2015

Bourgeois Meat Market, Thibidoux LA Bourgeois Market’s Smoked Jerky The first thing I do when I arrive in a town is seek out the good cheap eats with local flavor. Here’s the ten best I discovered in...

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Road Fever

As some of you know, I spend much of the year wandering around the country sampling regional wine and food, taking in the sights, and trying to dodge weather events that make traveling precarious. But...

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In Search of Ambiente

When trying to understand a wine and its significance there are four dimensions from which one can draw. There is of course the taste and aromatics of the wine—the sort of thing you find in a tasting...

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On The Road Again

After 5 weeks, 78 winery visits, and about 550 wines tasted (yes we spit), the research for our guide to the Willamette Valley is finished. So today we say goodbye to these wonderful people, their...

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The Thai That Blinds: Pok Pok PDX

I’ve got one shot, one night in Portland, and way to many good restaurants from which to choose. A first world problem to be sure but a problem nevertheless—the tyranny of choice. I suppose the best...

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Ciao New Orleans

Tomorrow we leave New Orleans after 10 days of crawfish, boudin, po’boys and a little jazz. This is a great food culture, always interesting whether you’re spending $100 or $10 per plate. Good food is...

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Peasant Food Texas Style: Chicken Fried Steak

Peasant food is fascinating. At worst it is inedible. By necessity made from humble, common ingredients often of poor quality, when prepared carelessly it’s worse than fast food. But when prepared with...

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Texas Hill Country Wine Road (not everything is bigger in Texas)

The View from Pedernales Winery Big hats, big trucks, big sky, big personalities, and of course a large land mass. There is some truth to the slogan “everything is bigger in Texas”. Even their wine...

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