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Recently, I put together a little photo tour of a cooperage on Crushpad’s blog. What is this cooperage, you ask? Well, a cooperage is usually a place that makes barrels — but after looking it up on Wiki just now, I also found out they can make butter churns, which only makes them cooler in [...]
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Thanks to a CrushCamper who took a bunch of really great photos while they were here, I finally have some images to share with you. Consider this a truncated tour, for all of you who can’t make it out for a camp. Check it out, after the jump!
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Tonight, as Joe and I walked home from a well deserved Friday night dinner at Mexico DF: In a rare moment of public affection, he reaches his arm around my shoulder and leans in to kiss me on the cheek. He stops, then recoils for a moment, his nose squinching. “You smell like coffee,” he [...]
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That’s right, folks. Harvest — though it completely caught us all with our pants down, scampering for the bushes — is around half over. With hundreds of tons of grapes already processed in the first weeks of September (and most of that tonnage already turned into wine), picking has been ramping back up again and [...]
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I’ve never known my mother to drink a whole lot. A beer here, a margarita there, but as a kid, I can’t recall many instances of her consuming more than one or two beverages in a single sitting. Moreover, it was rare that she ever purchased wine, which would only appear in our refrigerator when [...]
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Recently, after two years of not having easy access to an automobile, Joe and I signed up for ZipCar. Not only does it make getting huge amounts of groceries a whole lot easier, but we also decided we wanted to take advantage of the many amazing places that surround San Francisco and get out of [...]
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Nothing could be quite so precarious as climbing up stacks of barrels, each filled with a half ton of wine, for the sole purpose of measuring their Brix and temperature, until you begin to think to yourself, “Well, shit, if The Big One hits San Francisco right now, we’re totally effed.” As in, pray you [...]
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Unbeknownst to many VMAC + Cheese readers, in my past life, before all the food and the wine and the writing, I danced. I began taking dance lessons at the age of 3, when my parents brought me to a small weekly class at a community recreation center. There I was free to prance around [...]
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