Posts under ‘Beverages’

The year’s almost over, and if you haven’t started thinking about New Year’s Eve plans, now’s the time! I wanted to share two sets of resources with you that might be helpful as you do your New Year’s party planning. Both of them are round-ups of cocktails I posted on BlogHer, and I hope they’ll [...]

I realize that this blog doesn’t bear the name “The Inadvertent Cocktail Drinker,” but I have become an aficionado of the artisanal cocktail since arriving in the Bay Area. Such an aficionado, that is, that I rang in the New Year at Alameda’s Forbidden Island, a tiki bar that specializes in rum-based drinks made well, [...]

I’ve got an experiment in the works. My hypothesis? Those who didn’t like the Sadie would, indeed, like the thyme-infused vodka in another set of clothes. Tomato-based clothes.
I came to this theory while daydreaming about what other ingredients go with thyme. A giant tomato floated into my consciousness, and, well, it couldn’t have hit me [...]

One of my fairly new coworkers came into my office not that long ago and said, “There isn’t much of a lunch culture here, I notice.”
“You’re right,” I said. “I guess most of us do just eat at our desk.”
I rarely have time for a leisurely lunch out of the office. I often bring something [...]

I want to assure my eating populace that I do, in fact, often eat food without thinking about it. My pants size? Proof of that fact.
That being said, welcome to October, which is the month of the Eat Local Challenge. And because I clearly can’t resist a good challenge, I’m in.
I heard about the challenge [...]

Directly after my experience in Civic Center Plaza, I was scheduled to be at the Heirloom Tomato with Local Wines workshop over at Fort Mason. Believe me when I say I was less-than-interested, right at that moment, with something as trivial as wine and tomatoes, even though this was one part of the weekend I’d [...]

It took me a long time to get to Slow Food Nation.
According to my sources on the inside, the lack-of-directional-signage problem is fixed today, but after following the Slow Food Nation website directions to take public transit all the way to Fort Mason, I spent half an hour wandering about the park grounds, trying to [...]

It’s been approaching, slowly.
Kurt Michael Friese, author of A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food In The Heartland, has been riding the train across the Plains and the Rockies, taking a paced route toward San Francisco. The vegetables and herbs in the Victory Garden have been stretching toward the sunlight – when sunlight pierces the fog, that [...]

Somewhere along the way, I picked up a Very Good Idea: Always keep a bottle of sparkling wine chilling in the fridge. Do this at all times. No exceptions.
After all, one never knows when a celebration will break out, and one must be prepared. Often, good news arrives in an instant, leaving no time for [...]