Continuing my posts on books I’ve been reading: I just finished up The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Wine by Benjamin Wallace (also available from FCPL). It was an interesting, if a little dry at the beginning, read. Briefly it tells the story of the wine market for rare old (18th and 19th Century) [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 29, 2008
New Brunswick Farmers Market
According to some buzz that I heard, and as noted on the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s website there is a new farmers market in Brunswick on Sundays from 1:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. starting in June. Looking at the calendar that would be this Sunday. I think I will try to check it out this weekend. I’ll [...]
May 29, 2008
Quote of The Day (and brief history lesson)
Most of you may not know that one of the first food critics and publisher of a best selling guide in 1935, Called Adventures in Good Eating was Duncan Hines. (yes that Duncan Hines- he ultimately sold the rights to use his name which ended up on Proctor & Gamble cake mixes). Anyway I came [...]
May 27, 2008
A Great Read- Mediterranean Summer
I am in the middle of reading three food related books, which I will probably post about as I finish them. What do they have to do with Frederick? Honestly, nothing except that I got them all from the Frederick County Public Library.
The first one I have finished is Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France’s [...]
May 25, 2008
Farmer’s Market Report 5-24-08
Went to the West Frederick (Baughman’s Lane) Farmers Market. They had good strawberries, spinach, salad greens and spring onions. One thing I was struck by was how long the lines were. It really goes to show that the demand far outstrips the supply. We were there about 10:45 and some things had already sold out. Lots [...]
May 24, 2008
In Search of a Good Pizza Wine- 2006 Terre di Sole?
The white whale to my Ahab is what I call a good pizza wine. What do I mean by that? Well what I am always on the lookout for is an inexpensive red (preferably Italian) that we can crack open on a weeknight with a quickie meal of spaghetti, pizza or any of the other Italian inspired [...]
May 23, 2008
Sustainable Seafood
I’ve always been concerned about where the food on our plates comes from. As readers of this blog will know this is specially true for me with respect to meat, poultry and seafood. As I was eating my linguine with shrimp (review coming soon) the other day I really started thinking about the shrimp. After a little research I [...]
May 22, 2008
Fred Foodie Ignored!!
There was an article (here) in yesterday’s Frederick News Post about Frederick area food bloggers. It failed to mention this site, yes loyal readers not a peep about Fred Foodie. Oh the horror! The humanity! The snub! I pity the next restaurant I review. It will be ugly. The food will taste like crap! Of course since sarcasm doesn’t [...]
May 21, 2008
Caballo Viejo
After hearing some good things about Caballo Viejo I finally got a chance to try this restaurant. First of all you have to understand that cuisine is primarily Venezuelan. Not that this is in any way bad, just that if you go in there looking for a typical tex-mex experience you will not get what [...]
