by Brian | Dec 1, 2013 | News
There’s one little problem with blogging recipes that you have tried. You have to have tried them before you can write about them. We had a great Thanksgiving and I wish I could have shared the recipes with you beforehand. But, but, we had to do the recipes and...
by Brian | Nov 15, 2013 | News
On a recent visit to Austin, I spent days in SoCo, the South Congress Street district that lies south of Town Lake. You just drive over the famous “Bat Bridge” and head up the hill and suddenly you are in a different world. Restaurants, food carts, pods of...
by Brian | Oct 29, 2013 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, News
I am a big fan of “infographics.” Those are the complicated graphics pieces that you now see in newspapers and magazines in just about every issue. They contain too much information to be useful on television. But in print, or here on the...
by Brian | Oct 8, 2013 | News
Don Draper in Mad Men is the prototype businessman with an expense account. Whether just off Madison Avenue or traveling to LA, Don dines well. Drinks well. And rarely sleeps alone. He is James Bond without a license to kill. Although, being in advertising, he might...
by Brian | Sep 27, 2013 | News
Fall. And leaves. And cheese. If you go to http://www.vtcheese.com/cheesetrail.htm you will find yourself presented with this lovely map of artisanal cheesemaker around Vermont. And the rest of the page there will actually put cheesemaker names to those numbers! The...
by Brian | Sep 17, 2013 | News
I live in Tribeca, now famous and trendy. I moved here 26 years ago when it was gritty and isolated. I could walk out at 10PM and be the only person on the street. Life does change and my neighborhood most definitely has. If you wander out at 2AM the streets here are...
