Joel | February 10, 2010
Mad Love. Forever. That’s your likely reward for showing up on Valentine’s Day with Prosecco and white chocolate in hand.
Prosecco’s playful, mischievous character combined with the decadent attitude of white chocolate sets a mood that’s…uhmmm…appropriate for Valentine’s Day.
White chocolate truffles will up the pleasure ante: their round shape indulges sweet shared nibbling, [...]
Joel | January 15, 2010
The wine world is recently abuzz with predictions about wine trends during the coming year.
I come terribly under-dressed to the party: I have only an observation to offer you.
There are two reasons for this: somewhere along the way, I have concluded that prediction is the stuff of weathermen / women. And besides, [...]
Joel | October 27, 2009
Who inhabits the spaces we’ve lived in when we move on? Do they too scent the winter kitchen by tossing orange peels into the old iron stove? Have they looked with curiosity upon the egg shaped depression left in the window sill where we hammered open so many walnuts?
I am always nostalgic about such [...]
Joel | October 23, 2009
A moon and a sun inhabit our home. One is called Italy, the other called China. Which is which, you may ask? They take turns playing moon and sun, balancing momentum and gravity, constantly in need of the other’s orbit.
When I first mentioned to my Italian mother that I was thinking of [...]
