There’s a pretty good bead-getting story that goes with the N’awlins Bar-be-que Shrimp story but…oh heck…just this once. Just like when my husband enlightened me to the red light district in Amsterdam many moons ago, my first trip to Bourbon Street was equally adventuresome and eye-opening. There as one of a few ladies for a…
champenoise @evewine101 http://twitpic.com/1t33ys – I still think you should get the “Eve” decanter from @RiedelUSA 🙂 The simple tweet above led me on a journey from chefing it up at home to analyzing wine paraphernalia as phallic symbols. Read on, but you’ve been warned. When I tweeted the photo above my caption read: Setting out…
I’m blaming this one, as usual, on my spouse. Mr. Cellar-It. We bought an inexpensive Chilean Cab TEN YEARS AGO, that was a definite “drink now”, and laid it down deep in the recesses of our wine cellar. Let’s now fast forward to yesterday. This is what my hard-working Fire Chief spouse comes home to:…
Press Release – for Immediate Release – from Eve’s Wine 101 A new feature has been added to your favorite wine blog for beginners and aficionados. Get ready for it…I will be taking you with me, willingly or not, on my Chef 101 journey every Wednesday to make your hump-day hump-full. It started about two…
(The above poster is mine, one of two I now own, from Willi’s “1991 vintage”. This one was bought for me by friends as a surprise birthday gift during a wine tasting weekend in Santa Ynez. I was so surprised to find the posters hanging locally, I made a Huge-Eve-Deal out of it, and I’m…
Just in time to enjoy being with the girlfriends for theopening of the new “Sex and the City 2” movie. The newest and hottestdrink. Ladies, let’s get together and celebrate our beauty and have atoast with the new “Glamour Girl Martini” Ingredients:3 oz Folonari Pink Pinot Grigio1 oz Peach SchnappsSplash of Cranberry JuiceMarachino Cherry for…
(Well, looky here, another excuse to wine taste in Manhattan Beach. Wonder if any of my winemaking friends close by will attend.) WHAT:Manhattan Beach dining destination Café Pierre continues its series of monthly Winemaker Socials, this time with the acclaimed Fred Brander of Brander Vineyard. On the first Thursday of each month, owner Guy Gabriele…
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I was turned off by Limoncello for a few years because Danny DeVito was so turned on by it in his famous 2006 interview-while-drunk. He and pal George Clooney tied a yellow ribbon on for the wrong reasons. DeVito has since tried to make it a right reason by putting his name on his own…