Five Finds on Friday: Ethan Zuckerman of Barefoot Bucha
On Fridays, we and The Charlottesville 29 feature five food finds selected by local chefs and personalities. This week’s picks come from Ethan Zuckerman, of Barefoot Bucha, which has just […]
Trust your gut: The danger of scoring wine and beer with points
Most wine drinkers are aware of the 100-point scale, whether they are familiar with Robert Parker and his recently sold Wine Advocate, or simply with the numbers on gold medallions […]
Good catch! A chef’s guide to choosing and preparing fresh fish
It’s still a mystery why fish is not as popular as meat nowadays. A filet of Alaskan halibut is much leaner than a juicy steak; its fats, those precious omega-3 […]
Stargazers: Charlottesville scientists are helping build the most powerful telescope in history
The President of Chile is running about an hour late. Not surprising, perhaps, considering the dedication ceremony he’s attending is being held 25 miles from the small tourist town of […]
Takin’ it to the streets: This week’s restaurant news
The On the Road culinary adventure series begins in Richmond on Sunday, April 21 and travels to Charlottesville for a jam-packed weekend of food events bouncing between the two cities […]
Take your time: The magic of ageable white wine
Take a look around a few wine cellars. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Now tell me: What’s the one thing that is missing or grossly underrepresented in most of them? Vintage […]
Quality ‘cue: How does local pulled pork stack up?
Barbecue can be so vexing—like one of those vague memories you can’t decide whether it ever really happened, or you maybe just dreamt it. You’ll be driving around the ragged […]
Ecology of mind: UVA symposium aims to revive the interdisciplinary thinking of Gregory Bateson
“It takes two to know one.” One of the many riddles that Gregory Bateson–the anthropologist, philosopher, biologist, psychologist, and high priest of cybernetics–left behind when he died of respiratory disease […]
Space relations: Preventing sibling rivalry
The issue of personal space comes up in my household a lot. Both my 5-year-old daughter and husband have a high tolerance for physical proximity—they tend to sit close, speak […]
Men in the kitchen, beer on the table, kids in the hoophouse: This week’s restaurant news
The Craft Brewers Conference is being held in Washington, D.C., this year—a big enough deal to begin with, but news of one of our own breweries being highlighted in a […]