by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog
n Neuroscientists tell us that we have taste receptors on our tongues predicated to seven things: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami, kokumi (calcium) and fat. Sweetness is near and dear to us as children supposedly because of the sweetness we inherently crave in our...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
n At some point near the end of a recent dinner in Singapore, my friend and fellow Master Brian Julyan and I suddenly thought we smelled natural gas in the restaurant where we were dining; or mercaptan, to be precise, which is added to natural gas to make it...
by admin | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
n Several months ago I wrote a post on Mozart and how you can help save the classical music universe by purchasing/downloading some of Wolfgang’s music. Practically all the comments I had from readers were very positive, but many asked, “what’s next?” “Where do I go...
by admin | Feb 9, 2013 | Blog
n April 2006; I’d been in Portugal for the better part of a week with good friend and fellow Master Keith Goldston. We were guests of AMORIM, Portugal’s largest cork producer, and had toured cork factories, seen cork forests, and sat through seminars on all things...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog
n Over the last ten-plus years, I’ve taught a classed called Mastering Wine II at the Rudd Center in St. Helena. In most respects, MWII, as I like to call it, is a second level wine survey class organized by focusing on a different grape variety or varieties each of...
by admin | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog
n First, a belated Happy New Year to everyone. Here’s to a great 2013 in all possible ways. For those of you that don’t know, I live in the Sunset district of San Francisco, completely ill-named because it’s the coldest and foggiest part of the city. To point, while...
