For the average wine consumer, there is a plethora of intimidation
associated with wine buying. This is a feeling that is most often
associated with not understanding
I'm amazed at how often I get e-mail from a disgruntled home cook,
lamenting the fact that, once again, a dish of pasta has turned into a
culinary disaster.
When I lived in the North End of Boston, in the nineteen eighties
and nineties, I hung around a neighborhood bar from time to time,
called The Corner Café.
The cocktail has the distinction of being an original American
drink. Its origins are murky, but the most common accounts name one
Antoine Amedee Peychaud
