Category Archives: Food and Drink

Russian River Brewing Company’s Pliny the Elder

Posted on 23rd January 2016 by Kelly Caspari

Wandering through my neighborhood grocery store on a Saturday afternoon, I came across a wine tasting. “What the heck!” I said to myself and sauntered up to the guy with the wine glasses. I was chatting pleasantly with a couple … Continue reading →

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Carrie Levin’s The Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Cookbook

Posted on 19th January 2016 by Diverse Voices

Stacy Troubh wrote this review back in the days when she was running Sophia’s, a superb tea shop. Considering it’s the most important meal of the day, restaurant owner Carrie Levin teaches us what breakfast should be in her new … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 6th of January: del Toro: Pan’s Labyrinth, Yugoslav folk music, Richard and Linda Thompson doing trad Irish music, Cape Breton music, a wee hedgehog puppet, Finnan hadddie, more chocolate, Armenian folk music, fantasy noir and a lot more!

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out. — Mathew Swift, the Midnight Mayor, in Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels Ahhhh, plump pork sausages sizzling in their own fat, eggs any way you like them, palacsinta … Continue reading →

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My comfort food

Posted on 3rd January 2016 by Jennifer Stevenson

Comfort food is defined as “German or Danish” for me, because those were my maternal grandparents’ comfort foods: whole milk, cream, butter, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, lots of noodles with heavy creamy sauces, coffeecakes, homemade cookies, thick soups. Oh, … Continue reading →

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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition

Posted on 3rd January 2016 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thonpson wrote this review. Back in January, Anthony Bourdain may possibly have visited my favorite bar. I say “possibly” because his trip to Portland, Maine won’t air on the Travel Channel until 12 April 2010 and the execs are keeping … Continue reading →

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Catherynne Valente’s Winter Pleasure

Posted on 1st January 2016 by Diverse Voices

I love the winter, so I tend to revel in it: making snowmen with marzipan and blackcurrant faces (which my dog promptly eats off), pumpkin coffee and snug scarves, wrapped up and warm by the wood stove, typing away at … Continue reading →

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Amano Artisan Chocolate’s Amano Artisan Chocolate: Montanya, Guayas & Madagascar bars

Posted on 1st January 2016 by Summer Queen

 I can only speak for myself as a chocolate addict, but I loosely categorize chocolate into three general categories: cheap chocolate to be scarfed as needed, mid-grade chocolate that’s to be enjoyed more slowly . . . and then there’s the really … Continue reading →

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Green & Black’s Organic Milk Chocolate, Organic Maya Gold and Organic Bittersweet Dark Chocolate

Posted on 22nd December 2015 by Robert

Green & Black’s got its beginnings in 1991, when Craig Sams, founder of the English organic food company Whole Earth, was sent a bar of organic 70% cocoa dark bittersweet chocolate. Sams and his wife, Josephine Fairley, environment columnist for … Continue reading →

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Equal Exchange: Dark Chocolate with Almonds, Chocolate Espresso Bean and Extra Dark Chocolate Panama

Posted on 22nd December 2015 by Robert

Equal Exchange is a worker-owned company founded in 1986 specializing in Fair Trade relationships with small producers of organic teas, coffees, chocolate, and snacks. The three Equal Exchange chocolates that came my way were 3.5 oz. bars, as  usual scored … Continue reading →

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Ritter: Dark Chocolate with Whole Hazelnuts, Rum, Trauben, Nuss (Rum, Raisins, Nuts) And Dark Chocolate with Marzipan

Posted on 21st December 2015 by Robert

Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG of Germany produces an extensive selection of chocolates and chocolate candies (and I will explain the distinction below), some of which we have reviewed here before. I’ve had three more examples cross my desk, … Continue reading →

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