Food and Drink

Drinking Corner with Jeeves Triumvirate: Schall writing about a Wodehouse book for which Belloc provided by the introduction [http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/words-from-wodehouse.html]. The Week End Wodehouse. I gotta get this volume. Notable excerpt from Schall's essay: "What struck me on again reading Wodehouse

Brews You Can Use I have my reservations about "The Art of Manliness" website, but overall, it posts some great stuff. Earlier this week, I stumbled across an excellent overview of scotch: The Guide to Scotch Whisky [http://artofmanliness.com/2009/04/05/the-art-of-manliness-guide-to-scotch-whisky/] . I keep some 50-year

The Rise of Vodka A good friend and client started up his own distillery in my hometown. It's fully licensed and operational. Its first product is Incentive Vodka [http://www.incentivevodka.com/The-Vodka.html], and it's winning awards and spreading. I hadn't taken a

BYCU Wasn't Cornwall the earliest country to succumb to England? I think it succumbed so long ago, people forget that it once existed independently. That's my understanding anyway. I guess it's a fairly poor region of the UK, kinda like Scotland without the drunks

Drinking Corner It's every wine snobs worst nightmare: box wines are gaining credibility. According to this article (Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/dining/reviews/boxed-wines-review.html?_r=1] ), it was merely a matter of time. Boxed wines have all sorts of advantages, including volume, portability,

Vacation is Over I'm back. I spent the weekend in Alpena, Michigan, at the ancestral cottage on Lake Huron. Whatta difference one week makes. On my way home on Friday, I discovered that "they" are revising the economic figures going all the way back to 2007,

Wow, there's a boat load of BYCU stories out there right now. So many, in fact, that I have a big announcement ("big" used loosely): BYCU will now become a daily feature at TDE, with the exception of Sundays and Mondays. But full disclosure: If I