By now it’s likely you’ve seen one of the new spots Verizon has rolled out touting the reach of their nationwide wireless network. In the ads people are set in front of an easel spattered with colored dots, each representing a unit of network coverage for a particular carrier and asked to identify what they…
All posts in December 2013
Of soggy madeleines and upscale ratatouille
Lessons from the haberdashery
Some of the chief pleasures wine affords derive from the effects it produces on the special, hyper-sensitive tissue that lines the inside of our mouths – the way it grasps the lips, tongue and palate in a palpable, sensuous embrace. The food science term for this is mouthfeel, a term I find unbearably clinical for…
Yeast song
On Monday November 4th mobile-radio.net set up seven microphones in the Mosel Valley cellar of Rudolf and Rita Trossen to capture the sounds of the freshly-pressed 2013 vintage in the process of turning itself into wine. The sounds were broadcast live for 17 hours over several Internet radio sites. You can listen to the little…
Go froth and multiply
The Boston Globe Magazine recently published a story with my byline on sparkling wines for the holidays. I had fun putting it together and editor Anne Nelson made a lovely two page spread of it, but it left me a tiny bit unfulfilled. The assignment — recommend 10 bubblies at a variety of price points worth…