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Jul. 8th, 2009
If It Wasn’t for That Umlaut ...
Jul. 8th, 2009 03:31 am
FROM HERE TO YOUR BACKYARD The Wachau region of Austria produces the rich and multi-talented grüner veltliner wines.
Tasting Report: Grüner Veltliners, the Quiet Austrians
By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: July 7, 2009
GRÜNER VELTLINER is one of summer’s great, unlikely pleasures.
As eager as we were to embrace the wines, the tasting was somewhat disquieting. While we very much liked our favorites, we found too many wines that were not up to snuff.
Why unlikely? Well, it may seem shallow, but Americans have always been riveted by the mellifluous, flowing wine names drawn of the romance languages — the chardonnays, pinot grigios and Sancerres. Germanic terms, with their umlauts and consonant pileups, have historically posed obstacles, whether gewürztraminer, blaufränkisch (its alternate name, lemberger, is no better) or the ever-popular trockenbeerenauslese. More
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A New Spin Cycle for the Common Dip
Jul. 8th, 2009 03:36 am
By MARK BITTMAN
Published: July 2, 2009
WHEN I was young, there was but one dip served in my world: sour cream mixed with Lipton onion soup mix, served almost exclusively with Ruffles potato chips. (I realize this dates me, but I also can’t read the preceding sentence without wanting a scoop of this.) More
Recipe: Pea Dip With Parmesan (July 8, 2009)
Yesterday, 
tarkrai posted that he had a layover here in Our Fair Cities while on a journey from Hamburg to the wilds o' Idaho. Various pond-spanning communication methods and busy people ended up with me at the airport around six pm, to whisk Steve off to sushi at Midori's Floating World Cafe, which I've been to once before. One wrong turn later, and after parking the car, I realized it wuz no longer at the location I remembered. Phone calls and google resolved the location, but off we went in search of it and more wrong turns. We ended up back in the same parking space, because it had only moved across the street and to the corner. We ate fish after one of the minnehahas and guppiecat arrived and all twenty other people in the restaurant were fed. mia_mcdavid arrived after a bit to join in with sake. The minnehaha and guppiecat took off for music at Merlin's Rest, and Steve and I took off for more wrong turns to drop him off at the airport after the brief, but inadvertent, tour of scenic Highway 62 right here in Beautiful South Mpls.
Best wishes to Steve's mother, who is in hospital.
tarkrai posted that he had a layover here in Our Fair Cities while on a journey from Hamburg to the wilds o' Idaho. Various pond-spanning communication methods and busy people ended up with me at the airport around six pm, to whisk Steve off to sushi at Midori's Floating World Cafe, which I've been to once before. One wrong turn later, and after parking the car, I realized it wuz no longer at the location I remembered. Phone calls and google resolved the location, but off we went in search of it and more wrong turns. We ended up back in the same parking space, because it had only moved across the street and to the corner. We ate fish after one of the minnehahas and guppiecat arrived and all twenty other people in the restaurant were fed. mia_mcdavid arrived after a bit to join in with sake. The minnehaha and guppiecat took off for music at Merlin's Rest, and Steve and I took off for more wrong turns to drop him off at the airport after the brief, but inadvertent, tour of scenic Highway 62 right here in Beautiful South Mpls. Best wishes to Steve's mother, who is in hospital.