by admin | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog
Many reading this post will clearly remember their first restaurant job. Mine was bussing tables and washing dishes at the now long defunct Uncle John’s Pancake House in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the summer of 1971 and I had just finished my sophomore year...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Blog
I’m a big fan of the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. As of late, it feels like we’re living it. Yes, I know it’s not February (yet), but it seems like we’ve been stuck in pandemic mode forever. However, I still take comfort in the fact...
by admin | Nov 11, 2021 | Blog
Ca. 1959: Grandma with my brother Tom (left) and sister Tina. Many of my earliest memories from childhood, before we moved from the South Texas tropics to the high desert of New Mexico, are images of my maternal Grandma Wade’s farm. It was a sprawling 2,000-acre...
by admin | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog
It was April of 2001 and my second trip to Germany. I had been there the year before with the same importer. During that first trip we traversed through most of the wine regions in the country for over a week, visiting as many as four wineries a day. Lest you think a...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Recently I read an online article about glassware. I learned that during the pandemic last year Americans drank 14% more than the previous year. No surprise given the stress of shelter in place and what with everyone always being home. I also learned that Americans...
by admin | Jun 12, 2021 | Blog
Ann-Sophie Barwich is a scientist and professor with joint positions in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Her recent book called Smellosophy is about all things olfactory. While it...
