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Robust & Ready: Coyam 2007

Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

When it comes to pursuit of drinking good wine, sometimes you get lucky enough to stumble upon one of those bottles that hits the price-quality ratio dead on. A wine that year after year gives the same consistency,  hovers in the same price range, and has decent distribution to find it easily. After all, you [...]

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A Voice from Chilean Society: A Short Video

Posted in Ramblings & Rants, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I want to share this short video documentary (two minutes long) with you guys that a dear friend of mine here in Chile, Jacqueline Fabius, produced.  Jacqueline is a gifted photographer, graphic designer, and a budding filmmaker. She’s also off in Haiti working to set up a school as we speak. Here, in Nothing from Heaven, [...]

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Foodie Central: Chicago (My Hit List)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last week in Chicago was a really good dose of time to get to know the city, especially from a more insider aspect since I was hanging with my brother out on the Northwestern side of the city. I thought I would have some initial issues with the early Mid-western eating cchedule (dinner at 6pm) [...]

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Discover the Wines of South America

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This weekend, I jet to the US for series of South American-driven events. While many of them are with private chef associations like Les Dames d’Escoffier,  Women Chefs & Restaurateurs (WCR), New York Women’s Culinary Alliance, and universities (including my alma mater, University of Pennsylvania), I will be teaching this Master Class at the French [...]

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Quintessential Chilean Chicken Stew (Cazuela de Ave)

Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Cazuela is the ultimate Chilean comfort food. The dish has its origins in the indigenous Mapuche soup known as “corri,” originally made with potatoes, pumpkin, corn or cornmeal, green beans, red peppers, quinoa, chili, wild herbs, and animals ranging from wild game to chickens. The Spanish conquerors arriving in Chile in the mid-1500s coined these [...]

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Heavenly Pasta-Less Vegetable Lasagna

Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sorry guys about being MIA since last week.  Moving, moving, moving. Life has been in a bit of flux as we changed change home and office last week. Boxes. Papers. Stacks of things to be sorted, donated, and sold. A huge lightening of the load. In the midst of all this change, I downsized our [...]

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A Foodie’s Worst Nightmare and Revelation

Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night, I had a weird dream that I woke up with a strange medical condition. Something doctors had never seen. I had permanently lost my appetite.
It was like the Matrix, the same day kept repeating again and again, and still no appetite. I felt physical hunger but zero attraction to food. I didn’t care about [...]

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Coming soon…

Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Happy New Year!
Coming Soon: EatWine redesigned. Stay tuned for our new blog featuring people, places, food, wine and more.

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Oh, those Aussies

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Oh, those Aussies. Always trying to throw out some shockers with the wine labels. I have to admit though, they always make me laugh and it inevitably creates this intense desire to try the wines to see what they are like. Is the wine that good (or bad), evocative?
Comparing cellar notes with my Dad on [...]

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The Accidental Connoisseur (Book Review)

Posted in Uncategorized on August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I just finished one of the most insightful and intelligent books about the wine world I have had the pleasure of reading in some time: The Accidental Connoisseur. Part of its lure is its engaging text written by Lawrence Osborne, a terrific writer who is anything but a wine expert. However, being astutely open-minded he [...]

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