Category: Intro Letter

“Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you.” – Christoph Niemann, Abstract City “The art of seeing has to be learned…” – Marguerite Duras As I’m in Seattle for more food and drink research, I recount… Read more →

“It is something within us that doesn’t let us sleep, that doesn’t let us rest, that won’t stop pounding deep inside…” – Julia Esquivel, poem “They Have Threatened Us with Resurrection” It’s a non-stop August with summer festivals (SF Chefs, Outside Lands) in full swing. Likewise, it’s a full issue with plenty of stories and edible recommendations to share. Read… Read more →

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin In my beloved New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail during the sultry heat of summer on the Gulf, I savor the joys of home as I immerse in the glories of the South. Here’s my latest at Spoonwiz and Liquor.com… Read more →

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse…” – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre July is here… and the year is already half over. Didn’t it just begin? I’m excited to be part of a just-launched website, Spoonwiz,… Read more →

“… the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up It is sweet to be… Read more →

“Live in thy fingertips and in thy hair’s rising; hunger be thine… Breathe deep of evening, be with the rivers of tumult, sharpen thy wits to know power and be humble.” – Denise Levertov, Three Meditations (from Poems 1960-1967)   Back from three months of amazing, exhausting, back-to-back press trips (Denver, Breckenridge, Peru, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Brussels, Amsterdam, New York), I’ve… Read more →

“Not so long ago, it took much more to thrill me: the exhilaration of a new relationship, a promotion, one of those spa trips, a binge at Saks. Now it’s just the advance guard of tomorrow… and knowing that today was mine all mine.” – Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There Just off the wildest back-to-back press… Read more →

“Cultures with richer vocabularies are more fully human… individual men and women are more fully human when their memories are stocked with verses.” – Richard Rorty In the midst of the wildest back-to-back press trip schedule yet (Denver, Breckenridge, Peru, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Brussels, Amsterdam), I catch up on many recent food and drink highlights around SF, return to Chicago… Read more →

“Joy’s trick is to supply Dry lips with what can cool and slake, Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache Nothing can satisfy.” – Richard Brook in the poem, Hamlen Brook Church at Grand Wailea Resort, Maui So, make sure to change the filters on time with the help of a contractor. discount viagra online The victims of this particular… Read more →

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” – Eckhart Tolle Returning from snowy Louisville, KY, I spent a packed eight days visiting with distillers and staff (like Harlen Wheatley at Buffalo Trace, Larry Kass at Heaven Hill, Drew Kulsveen at Willett, and a number of small, craft distillers) and exploring the latest in Louisville bars… Read more →