I’m a simple guy. I love to eat, I love to laugh and I love to drink. Like George Costanza, if I can do all three, I’m in heaven. For me, a perfect meal consists of one part good food, five parts great wine and ten parts salubrious ...
The odd thing about playing golf in Alabama, a state in which I know almost nobody, is how identical it is to playing golf on a course at which you know everybody. So it was recently, on more than a handful of almost-too-beautiful golf courses on ...
WAKE UP…and drink? For some of you, this may not seem like an odd statement (just for the record, you are my kind of people), but to others, this is violating the social taboo of drinking before noon. Don’t worry; our forefathers have us covered ...
Your name could be on this bottle In the movie Sideways, the character Miles runs on about Pinot Noir and unwittingly compares himself to the grape when he says, “temperamental, thin-skinned, ripens early.” Most of us would rather be like ...
“A perfect kiss or a perfect meal?” I ask Joel Robuchon, the chef that has been referred to as the “Chef of the Century” in his native France. “They are two delicacies that both go to the same place,” chef Joel ...
A little bird says chef John Tesar, the former chef of the Mansion on Turtle Creek, has left his namesake steak and seafood restaurant in Houston’s Woodlands “to pursue another opportunity, which will be announced on Monday.” No ...
Ports are a wonderful way to wind up a meal, or wind down before bedtime. And while most wine drinkers understand the difference between the two basic types- tawny and ruby- not everyone knows what an LBV (late bottled vintage) port is or how to ...