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The mythology is that St. Patrick's Day is an Irish thing -- even though you'd be served only astonished looks if you ordered green beer in Dublin -- and that ordering green beer on St. Patrick's Day is the proper way to celebrate the national day of Ireland. It's a tradition that's as horribly misguided as it is well intentioned.
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In the world of numerals, one is the loneliest number.
Despite my best artistic efforts, my sushi came out looking like some kid had run it over with his bike.
Whether fiery hot or comparatively mild, when it comes to Thai food, harmony's the guiding principle.
Is it just my ungratefulness or does everybody find it excruciatingly frustrating to receive expensive and useless things when there's a long list of basic necessities that they, well, need?
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As a gal who's slung sushi for a living in Japanese restaurants from London to San Francisco, you'd think I'd have learned a little something about sake along the way.
There are two types of tequila people: those who got sick on Cuervo during spring break and never went back, and those who enjoy a fine tequila in the way you'd savor a smooth scotch. (Cue rap music.)
If any spirit sums up what spirits are about, it’s whisky. It adapts to where it’s made, who’s drinking it and why. It can be as sophisticated as high tea and as rough as three-day stubble. Sipped or slugged, it can inspire art or arson.
Face it: when the term "baby" is attached to a well-known product -- unless that product is Ron Jeremy -- you expect miniaturization and, well, the short-bus version of the original.
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Snorkel Lake Michigan. I swear. That’s what the itinerary said. Now how can you pass that up. It’s like passing up the opportunity to ski Oklahoma.
Tucked in between the Italian Riviera and the Alps of France and Switzerland, Piemonte (pyeh-MOHN-teh) has aptly been called Italy’s “green treasure chest.”
In Montalcino, there's no shortage of excruciatingly quaint hilltop towns; no problem making you feel like writing home to say, "Sell everything. Never returning."
Let's raise a toast to these lovely ambassadors of the grape and honor their contribution to the success of the California wine industry as it stands today.
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