Posts by monk

Hello Joan - I sampled brunch 3 times during spring of 2002. I was well on my way to finishing my doctorate at Oregon State, and had met my two winemaker friends by then, so we were doing a lot of sampling. Thank you for the candid...

Hi Joan - I've 'noshed' at Big River, and the brunch at Eola Hills! Chefpeon beat me to the punch with an offer to help you decrease your birthday Pinot Inventory! You do not even swirl, swish, and spit wine to compare them? I have...

Thanks very much Joan, I will try it this evening (weather is getting horrid - the type you stay in for)! (BTW, I lived in Corvallis, Oregon (97-04) before moving back to the MidWest... miss the direct access to Pinot Noir!) Cheers,

Greetings - I have been reading various books on chocolatier, and wanted to ask if the amount of lavender one adds to flavor a truffle filling is more a function of the amount and type of chocolate one uses, or more a function of how...

Hello Robert - Directly, a good source on things Port and wine like is the 'Wine Bible', by Karen McNeil. A reasonably priced paperback that is an excellent reference. The following paragraph is from Wikipedia: Port is produced from...

I have not been able to match a red wine (dry or sweet) to chocolate that has not been other than 'OK'. I tend to match chocolate to a tawny port, or, as others have listed, distilled spirits. My science background makes me propose that...

Greetings - I have all bound volumes through 2005, but have stopped purchasing them because they apparently have one woman who handles 'customer service'. She comes across as someone who has no intention to help you, that you are...

Sometimes the obvious is not so to me... thanks!

Thanks for the steer Kayakado - it's simiilar, but the one on the show was 'four-tined', with the same small shape on each tine. I'm still searching...

Belatedly, Happy New Year! I have acquired a copy of "Belgian Chocolates", by Roger Geerts (impressive book on chocolate making). I usually manage to figure out terms that didn't "translate" well to English, or were...