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Blog Archive for September, 2009

  • New French Wines
    Just received in a few new French wines. All are fabulous and two of the three scored 92pt from Wine Spectator. Yann Chave Crozes Hermitage 2006 “le rouvre” “Sweet and...
  • Rogue River Blue and some other stuff too
    We just received our first THREE, yes three there will be FIVE total this season, wheels of Rogue River Blue cheese. For those of you who have not tried this...
  • What is QUALITY?
    This seems to be a common question in my life so I thought I would muse a bit over it here, please feel free to add your comments. What is...
  • What's new? Lots.
    We just received in a shipment of Salumi minus Agrumi and Mole. Agrumi is going to be out for a while kids, so don’t ask. Trust me, YOU”LL know when...
  • Authentic Tea
    Something I have been trying to say for a long time was just handed to me by our Tea goddess, Winnie Yu. Tea has no place in a commercial world...
  • Wheelin’ Walla Walla
    For those of you that live outside of Walla Walla, this may or may not be the most exciting thing you read today. For those of you in Walla Walla,...
  • Fair and Frontier Days! and Olive Oil!
    Shoot dern. Well it’s fair time here in Walla Walla again, that means Demolition Derbies, Rodeos, and a really good chance that your are going to get sick eating fair...
  • Foodies and the demise of the "home cook"
    A while back I mentioned the I HATE, yes HATE (notice the all caps to give weight and power to this) the term FOODIE. NY Times Magazine write Michael Pollan...
  • The cost of an egg
    This is a BAG. Where I will go off on a tangent about something that I find that needs to be seen, heard or discussed by all of us. If...