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Napa Valley Wineries headed to Houston!
From Pint to Plate with Chef Kent Rathbun
Rathbun’s is the kind of success story every cook dreams of. At age 14, he entered the restaurant world. Lying about his age and claiming to be 15, Rathbun got a job as dishwasher. He introduced himself to the night chef and three weeks later he was cooking. In 34 years he hasn’t done anything else. And on this evening he was cooking with beer.
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Falwell, Flynt and K Vintners’ Charles Smith
Fresh from a late night viewing of “The People v. Larry Flynt,” I noticed a Google alert, “Winemaker Sues Anonymous Commenters on Wine Blog.” A few clicks later I find out that Charles Smith of K Vintners filed a complaint and caused subpoenas to be served on Google to get the IP addresses of the anonymous commenters.
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Kemah Boardwalk Wine Fest – Live Blogging
It’s International Grenache Day!
Chocolate and Beer? You Betcha!
Another Wine Blogger: Step into Beau’s Barrel Room
Beau Carufel calls wine ‘Liquid Art.’ We met Beau in June at the Wine Bloggers’ Conference in Washington. Beau was sitting in Wine Blogging 101 attempting to gather pearls of wisdom from the learned panelists while random audio from a concurrent session kept inserting itself into the conversation. Gotta love technology.
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