Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Happy Thanksgiving to my U.S. readers! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and is having a great weekend. My assignment was to bring apple pie and macaroni & cheese. Both turned out really good: I’d like to declare a mulligan for November, please. The month started with a thrown-out back, then a hurt neck, …
One of my major professional conferences is always the weekend of Beaujolais Release. It was off by one weekend last year, and this year I skipped it because it was in New York and I decided to put those funds toward a new laptop instead. I’m already close to getting my CEU’s for this biennium. …
Apologies for the delay between my last post and this one. I should’ve figured something was up when I was super irritable on Thursday and was nearly in tears over trying — and failing until late in the day — to buy a new laptop. Then I almost threw my Blackberry down the parking deck …
When I first heard that the Decatur Wine Festival was always held the first full weekend in November, I was shocked. “Are you crazy?” I thought. “The weather is going to be terrible!” I’ve now attended the Wine Fest three years in a row, and each time, the weather has been fantastic, although the beginning …
For those who don’t know, the Decatur Wine Festival is a fundraiser for the Decatur Arts Alliance. The event takes over the Decatur Square from the area behind the Old Courthouse (where the Bandstand is) to the part of the square on top of the MARTA station. Last year there were fifty tables, each from …