I just discovered the journal Flavour today. No idea when I will have time to read it, but it looks fascinating.

"Flavour is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes interdisciplinary articles on flavour, its generation and perception, and its influence on behaviour and nutrition. The journal publishes articles from all ( Read more... )

Some overdue food porn, with a restaurant review, has been posted hereIt's back-dated to keep from spamming your friend's page with a giant entry of me moaning about good food. (I refuse to go back and count how many times I used the words "good," "wonderful," "amazing," "excellent," and other such adjectives in that entry, but I do try not to be ( Read more... )

Tuesday night. The excuse? My birthday. Busy schedules, trips out of town, and suchlike, meant this particular celebration was happening over a month late, but hey, I am not going to argue if someone wants to take me out to a lovely dinner, and if my birthday is a good enough reason, I'll take it.

The location? Sea Salt, 2512 San Pablo Ave., ( Read more... )

After my hike I drive into town to buy groceries. I am hungry before I even get there. It's not in the budget, but I decide to eat in a restaurant instead of waiting another 90 minutes or more until I can finish shopping, drive back to where I am staying, make something, and finally eat dinner at 10 or 11 at night. Having food appear in front of ( Read more... )

Depending on how focused I am at work, I may be Ms. Post-a-lot today, to clear out some articles and entries that have been in storage for a while. My apologies in advance.

In the meantime? Food porn!

( Yesterday's picnic: )

Even if you don't have the space or the climate to grow wine grapes, you can now make your own wine. Crushpad walks you through the process. They walk you through the many choices involved in making wine, including choosing which grape variety (or varieties) you want to use, which of their vineyards are most likely to give you the flavors you ( Read more... )

Here's an article by Jonah Lehrer in The Frontal Cortex titled Don't Waste Good Wine on Food.

Which means intjester wins another argument. I think that puts the score at something like 4,783 to 2 in his favor. And I'm not sure about the two.

::sigh::

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edit: It's possible I should note that I've recently been accused of being prone to ( Read more... )

"I'm hungry. Are you hungry? I'm hungry. Let's figure out something for dinner ( Read more... )

For anyone who wants to know what they were drinking at my house last night... (assuming you were at my house, and all that ( Read more... )

I mentioned to a few of you earlier that I was feeling the need to be self-indulgent. I'll tell you, a bottle of 2004 Ruffino Aziano Chianti Classico does a good job of fulfilling that desire ( Read more... )