Food & Drink
Author: Mark V. Fusco. San Antonio, TX After being away for several weeks I've returned. My mother passed away on April 27th; a few days after my return from vacation. I decided to return with an episode to explain my absence and to honor her memory. While my mother wasn't a huge wine drinker, she did enjoy an occasional glass.I chose two wines from the other half of her heritage in Germany and Austria. The first wine is the 2010 Gobelsburger Gruner Veltliner. This estate was once owned by the...
A lot of people know that a cigar is composed of a wrapper, binder and filler, but not many understand how it all comes together. One of the most critical components in the cigar making processes is the bunching of the filler tobaccos to be rolled with a binder. At Drew Estate, they used what they refer to as estrujado method or "lazy entubado" and entubado methods. That is where they form a base of two tobacco leaves before using some of the rest of the filler in the entubado method. The entu...
Charlie finally gets back into the swing of things with a first impressions video featuring the Don Carlos 2008 from God of Fire. Soundtrack: "Sweet Home (rock instrumental)" by Ivan Chew [http://ccmixter.org/files/ramblinglibrarian/42129] is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Today we're trying The Ginger People's Ginger Beer. This is about as pure of a ginger experience as you can get. Ginger, sugar, water, and that's about it. Will something so simple deliver in the ginger beer category? Let's find out!
