Comfort food. It's polenta and pasta, roast beef and beef stew, pot pie and Shepherd’s pie and macaroni and cheese. It’s hamburgers, French fries, and toasted cheese sandwiches. It’s Chinese takeout and sushi and Chili con Carne; Osso Buco, Braised Short Ribs, and Fish and Chips. And, of course, bacon.
The restaurant Philippe is at one end of a contemporary multiuse building in Houston’s upscale Galleria area. At the other is the very popular RDG + Bar Annie from the city’s most famous chef, Robert Del Grande. Valet stands just thirty yards apart both see a heady percentage of shiny
A new sophistication about wine is emerging in China, where only a few years ago it was common to see people at banquets mixing Coca-Cola or Sprite with their Great Wall red. At first Chinese wine drinkers gravitated to status purchases of wine from the great châteaux Bordeaux, but now
Palate Press was well-represented among the winners at this year's Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards. Columnist Erika Szymanski was awarded the Emerging Wine Writer of the Year award and columnist Evan Dawson won the International Wine Book of the Year award for his book, Summer in a Glass: The
If you open more than a few bottles of wine per week, it’s probably already too late. No, I’m not talking about your health or your sanity, but about your kitchen drawers. They're likely choked with wine paraphernalia—gizmos to open wine and to serve it, to pour it and store
They used to call it tokay or tocai friulano, but because of European restrictions on words that can identify a wine (think "Champagne," for instance), the grape became known as simply "friulano," to appease the Hungarians of Tokaji. Whatever one wants to call it, it is a delicious wine, one
Do you really know what the 1961 Latour you purchased from an online buyer will taste like? And if the flavor is slightly off, will you blame the age or storage conditions of the wine or something more nefarious? Wine counterfeiting has been happening for over a century. During a
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