Category Archives: Wine

Highlights From The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party 2013

Posted on June 11, 2013 by docsconz in Big Apple BBQ, Cheese, Cocktails & Libations, Cooking, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, New York City, Regional, Slow Food, Southern Food & Cooking, The Southern USA, Traditional Ethnic, Wine

Brisket, ribs, sausages, whole hog, pork shoulder, cracklings, Mint Juleps, slaw, Bloody Marys, Alabama seafood – it was all there, enough to turn one relatively small park in NYC into the center of the American South for one whole weekend [...]

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Foods From Chile – The Wines: Part One- Viñedos de Alcohuaz

Posted on June 5, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, On the Farm, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

I have never seen bluer skies than the sky I saw in northern Chile’s Elqui Valley, high up in the Andes. The sky is so clear, the area of the Atacama Desert (the Elqui Valley is at the southern edge [...]

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Fermented Elements – Dinner With Matthias Merges and Kevin Farley (The Cultured Pickle)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by docsconz in California, Chicago, Cocktails & Libations, Cooking, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Fermentation, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Food Events, New Jersey, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Travel, Wine

Fermentation has been around for as long as humans have been eating food and drinking beverages other than water. Many cultures have used it to create their most iconic foods. It is only recently, however, that the techniques of fermentation have gained [...]

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L’Air du Temps- Much More than a Beautiful Scent

Posted on May 22, 2013 by docsconz in BeNeLux, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

 
I first became enthralled by Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre’s cooking at the 2011 StarChefs International Chefs Congress in New York City. His cooking was beautiful, alluring and had soul. I longed to actually get to taste it. His restaurant, L’Air du [...]

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A Mother’s Celebration at Cafe Boulud

Posted on May 14, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Holidays, New York City, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Wine

It wasn’t yet Mothers Day or my wife’s birthday. Those would both be the following day. It was, however, the day to celebrate both as well as two bon voyages. We drove down to New York City to take our [...]

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Aqui Está Coco Means Here is Great Seafood

Posted on May 9, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

By the time we left Rancho Doña Maria to drive back to our hotel in Santiago I really didn’t want to think about more food, let alone eat it. We had already had a wonderful seafood breakfast at the Mercado [...]

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Sunday Photo – Grape Stompin’

Posted on May 5, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Travel, Wine

At Viñedos Alcohuaz high up in the Andes overlooking  Chile’s amazingly blue skied Valle de Elqui they make wines the old fashioned way. Amongst the ancient techniques they use is the time honored tradition of crushing grapes underfoot. They say [...]

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Empanadas and Pork- A Day of Glorious Eating Continues at Rancho Doña Maria

Posted on May 1, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

The old saying is “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” That can also be applied to restaurants – at least some times. Left entirely to my own devices, I have to admit its highly unlikely that I would [...]

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Boragó – Tasting Chile’s Ancient Roots With A New Vision

Posted on April 24, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Travel, Wine

Chile’s neighboring country of Peru has long been known for the seemingly infinite variety of native ingredients, many of which have been adopted and adapted by other cultures as part of the Columbian Exchange, in which products from the Americas [...]

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Chile – A Land of the Exotic and the Familiar – An Overview

Posted on April 15, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

Chile, the country, first came to my attention a couple of years ago when I saw Rodolfo Guzman of the Santiago restaurant Boragó speak at the StarChefs ICC. His presentation which featured ingredients indigenous to the country and totally unknown [...]

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