by admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
n October marks 30 years that Carla and I have lived in San Francisco. We moved to California after I finished graduate school at the University of Michigan in January of 1984, initially settling in San Mateo because of the usual periodic housing shortage in the city....
by admin | Sep 21, 2014 | Blog
n Emily Papach, MS has worked in several different areas in the wine industry over the last decade. She started with a four year stint at Gramercy Tavern in New York and then returned home to Virginia to work for fellow MS Fran Kysela, at Kysela Pere et Fils, the...
by admin | Sep 6, 2014 | Blog
n Warner Brothers Studio The last movie I ever saw at a drive in was Mel Brooks’ brilliant comedy, Blazing Saddles, in the summer of 1974. A drive in, if you somehow missed out on this seminal American cultural experience, was a place where you paid to drive your car...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog
n Malcom Gladwell writes good airplane books. By that I mean Gladwell writes the kind of books you purchase at full retail on the fly (so to speak), at pricey airport bookstores as impulse buys to have something reasonably informative and/or entertaining to read while...
by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Blog
n “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”Shakespeare from Twelfth NightLast year I sat down to interview Yosh Han, an internationally known custom perfumer. Like previous interviews with wine industry colleagues, I wanted to deconstruct...
by admin | Jul 20, 2014 | Blog
n Dateline March 20th, 2014 on BBC Online: “The human nose can detect one trillion different odors, far more than we previously thought, say US scientists.”Back story: for the better part of the last 15 or more years, the Deductive Tasting PPT segment in the MS...
