When it comes to office romance, proceed with caution
I believe in taking risks for love. Evidence: Twice I have called complete strangers to ask for a date.
Living
When it comes to office romance, proceed with caution
Love in the trenches
I believe in taking risks for love. Evidence: Twice I have called complete strangers to ask for a date.
Taking a master class in how wine is put together
The art of making wine is in many ways the art of blending. For most of history, the world’s classic wines have been created by blending different grapes to create a unified whole, named not for those grapes, but for the places they were from: Champagne, Chianti, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Bordeaux. Even in Burgundy, famously obsessed with […]
Oh, goodness!
I haven’t done the math, but my best guess is that the odds of starting a successful new magazine are about a kajillion times worse than the odds of starting a successful new restaurant. And that’s in a good economy. The odds are probably even worse now that long-established magazines are folding and nobody reads […]
An eventful year—already
And just when we thought 2009 would be uneventful, here comes major news on the restaurant front.
No kangaroos in Austria
When you are in the wine trade, most people assume you just get paid to drink, and they are essentially right. Sometimes, however, you are not only paid to drink, but to eat as well, and to do it in a far off land. In that case, those people are not only right, but also […]
Close encounters
The moments I most love the Internet are not when I laugh at a stupid something or come across an odd fact or find yet another something I want to buy, but when—against all logic and intuition—I feel as though the Internet has somehow brought me closer to understanding the human condition. Really good sites […]
A little Italy
There’s big news in Nellysford this month. Considering that the place has less total eateries than Charlottesville has gourmet gas stations,
Endurance test
We talked about all the important relationship stuff before we got engaged. Once we did, there was a greater psychic urgency to make sure we were doing the right thing.
Petting a bald cat
Holidays, overindulgence, New Year’s resolutions—some of you may have woken up January 1 and immediately pledged to stop drinking so much or to stop drinking at all.
January 2009: Growing room
When I asked Mark and Cynthia Lorenzoni, who have owned and operated Ragged Mountain Running Shop since 1982, to talk about the most important room in their Albemarle house, they named the kitchen—because, as Mark says, “This is where we get all our gear together to go out running.” They and their friends, they explained, […]