Class Update- February 29, 2008 I meant to provide weekly “behind the podium” updates from my wine class, but the move to the house consumed a lot of time. Instead, I'll catch you all up on the last few weeks. Class 2: Your Nose Knows This class is a lot of work for the teacher, but I know — as someone who took this class several years ago — that it gives the students good tools for identifying aromas in wines. I spent the afternoon chopping a wide range of ingredients and putting them in little Dixie.http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/2008_02_01_blog-archive.html#4795001181675822147 The Glass Pantry- February 27, 2008 Packing, moving, and unpacking have been time-consuming and stress-inducing. But there is an upside: Long-lost treasures have re-emerged. I had been looking for Georgeanne Brennan’s The Glass Pantry in my bookcases for a while, but I hadn’t found it. I worried that I had gotten rid of it. But the other day, as I cleared off the magazines on our bedroom’s bookcase, I found the book buried in a stack of Wine Spectators. As soon as Melissa got home, I gleefully showed it to...http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/2008_02_01_blog-archive.html#4832000899124196465 American Wine Blog Awards- February 22, 2008 Last year, Tom Wark at Fermentation hosted the American Wine Blog Awards, and they proved popular enough to do a second time. If you read wine blogs — I consider OWF a food and wine blog, which means it doesn’t quite fit in either category — you should go to his site and nominate some of your favorites. Nominations close on February 27, so you have time to think about it. Right now he’s only taking nominations, so if a wine blog is mentioned you don’t need to...http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/2008_02_01_blog-archive.html#6717218631976321164 Remember That Survey Here Are The Results- February 20, 2008 Back in September, I asked you to participate in a survey to help me better understand my readers. I had 135 responses, which I estimated to be 2.7 percent of my readership at the time. (My readership is a larger number than my daily visitor count, because many people read me occasionally. Of course that means I can’t tell you how many distinct readers I have; I know it’s more than my daily visitor count, and my weeklymonthly visitor counts just add up all the daily numbers.) That...http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/2008_02_01_blog-archive.html#7584949495620659100 Keep Or Don't Keep: Magazines Worth Moving- February 19, 2008 So here it is: The final countdown (cue the Europe song). In two weeks, we will have no claim to our apartment; we will want nothing to do with our apartment. Ever again. Today, I culled magazines from my shelves in an attempt to reduce the amount of clutter we’re moving. Looking back through my archives of various publications, I had to decide which would end up in the new house and which would end up in the recycling bin. I’ve tried to be harsh, but some magazines make for good..http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/2008_02_01_blog-archive.html#8615506931992147520 |