Monthly Archives: August 2010
Day Three at the International Food Blogger Conference
Wrapped up the conference drinking Dry Wit from The Pike Brewing Company poured by none other than Charles and Rose Ann Finkel. I also enjoyed a bevy of food truck offerings, my favorite being pizza from Veraci for taste and the shortness of the line. I was pleased to have a brick oven pizza with just [...]
Day Three at the 2010 International Food Blogger Conference
Wrapped up the conference drinking Dry Wit from The Pike Brewing Company poured by none other than Charles and Rose Ann Finkel. I also enjoyed a bevy of food truck offerings, my favorite being pizza from Veraci for taste and the shortness of the line. I was pleased to have a brick oven pizza with just [...]
Day Two at the 2010 International Food Blogger Conference
Day two volunteering at IFBC was all about non-stop heavy lifting: tables, chairs, wine, water, plates, and the like. I worked my ass off! The highlight of the day for me was helping Ethan and Angela Stowell plate about 250 beef carpaccio in 40 minutes for a stampeding hoard of bloggers. This was made much [...]
Day One at the 2010 International Food Blogger Conference
What a whirlwind volunteering at the IFBC! Unpacked hundreds of copies of Eating Local, sliced 300 buns for Jason Wilson’s delicious black cod “BLT”, met all kinds of people, including Morgan Spurlock. Can’t wait for day two; I believe I will be opening an ungodly amount of wine bottles and assisting chefs. See you there! [...]
Meet Me at the IFBC
I’ll be volunteering for the next three days at the International Food Blogger Conference. I have no idea what I’ll be doing but I plan on having a damn good time and meeting a ton of people! Look for frequent updates on Twitter.
TGIC not TGIF
Went to lunch with my rep from TGIC at an Indian restaurant with a bevy of Argentine and Chilean wines (and one Spanish Garnacha thrown in for the hell of it). Really enjoyed the Montes Alpha Pinot and it was good with the mildly spicy cuisine. For about twenty bucks this is a pretty impressive [...]
Tasmanian Sparkling Wine on the Foodista Blog
I expand on my excitement regarding Tasmanian bubbles on Foodista.
Tasmanian Sparkling Wine! Seriously Cool!
Tasmanian Sparkling WineOriginally uploaded by jamesonf Wow, what a find! I had heard inklings that there were some cool sparklers coming from here which were recently confirmed at a lunch I attended courtesy of Goelet Wine Estates. Rich, barrel-aged still wines are balanced by the lovely and lively bubbles. One of the coolest wines I’ve [...]
Cheap-n-Tasty Bordeaux
Cheap-n-Tasty Bordeaux Originally uploaded by jamesonf Yes, from the 2009 vintage! From the heavily-hyped, purportedly greatest vintage in the history of Bordeaux. Well, at least since 2005. And 2003. And 2000. (Is the snark palpable?) And it’s about 1/100th the price of the fancy-pants first growths. I have no idea what the blend is but [...]
