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From the Gutt: A beginner's guide to flawed wines
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Honest talk about food and wine. Friday, December 9, 2011. A beginner's guide to flawed wines. Sometimes, the bottle of wine you open at home or order at a restaurant is flawed. That doesn't mean you made a poor choice and bought a crummy wine. As a delicate, living product, wine can go bad, like milk, produce, meat, or anything else. People feel enough anxiety about wine. That is basically what cork taint smells like. It makes the wine smell musty or like damp, moldy cardboard. But brett is, without a d...
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From the Gutt: January 2013
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Honest talk about food and wine. Friday, January 4, 2013. 20 Things Everyone Thinks About Houston Food (But Nobody Will Say). The "Eat" section of First We Feast. Recently published a list of of things everybody knows about food. 1 Houston hasn't yet reached adolescence in its development as a food city. Close your eyes and think about Houston restaurants ten years ago. What was hot and exciting? What were the hot openings? If you think that, however, it'll be gone in a flash, and you'll have never gotte...
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From the Gutt: December 2011
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Honest talk about food and wine. Friday, December 9, 2011. A beginner's guide to flawed wines. Sometimes, the bottle of wine you open at home or order at a restaurant is flawed. That doesn't mean you made a poor choice and bought a crummy wine. As a delicate, living product, wine can go bad, like milk, produce, meat, or anything else. People feel enough anxiety about wine. That is basically what cork taint smells like. It makes the wine smell musty or like damp, moldy cardboard. But brett is, without a d...
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From the Gutt: Lessons from Paris
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Honest talk about food and wine. Sunday, July 3, 2011. 1 Seasonal still rules the day, from Michelin Three Stars to bistros. Excellent book Au Revoir to All That. And his blog.). The stunning three-star Michelin restaurant on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It is a testament to seasonality, the finest ingredients, and artistic presentation. 2 It's about technique, not gimmicks. Another good example of the triumph of technique over gimmicks comes from Chef Jean Louis Nomicos, whose Les Tablettes. And sh...
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From the Gutt: Does every palate matter?
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Honest talk about food and wine. Thursday, October 18, 2012. Does every palate matter? At a recent dinner with several Houston-area wine bloggers, an interesting aphorism came up: Every palate matters. Does that hold when it comes to opinions about wine? As with almost anything, the answer is somewhere in the middle, but overall the notion that every wine drinker's palate matters is a valuable concept. What wines go off in your head like a light bulb? Large-format bottles at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago.
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From the Gutt: The improbable genius of 6-minute microwave brownies
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Honest talk about food and wine. Saturday, March 9, 2013. The improbable genius of 6-minute microwave brownies. There's a recipe making the Internet rounds these days for 6-minute brownies. The paste-like batter for 6-minute microwave brownies. This is where the appeal of six-minute brownies comes. They're seductively easy and eliminate the normal brownie wait of 35 or 45 minutes of baking. Impulse indulgence, with little mess. This. But what's the worst that could happen? There are, however, two importa...
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From the Gutt: How much money is wine worth?
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Honest talk about food and wine. Saturday, October 6, 2012. How much money is wine worth? How much is that wine in your glass worth? Seriously. Cover up the label. Wipe away the memory of what you paid for it. What is it worth to you? So where does that leave the question: How much is that wine in your glass worth? Popularity is only one factor in the price, but this doesn't tell us much about how much wine is worth. There is nothing gained by drinking wine to impress others. You should drink for you...
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From the Gutt: August 2014
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Honest talk about food and wine. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Here's to you, Grant. But it would have failed were it not for meticulous execution. My wife and I looked at one another and just started giggling. It was stunning:. There wasn't even a hint of that. This was a genuine way of saying, "Thanks for the wine on Sunday." He was just returning the favor, like any friend would, and you could feel that. A year or so later, we had a long conversation about sauces and how important they were in enhancing a...
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From the Gutt: July 2011
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Honest talk about food and wine. Sunday, July 3, 2011. 1 Seasonal still rules the day, from Michelin Three Stars to bistros. Excellent book Au Revoir to All That. And his blog.). The stunning three-star Michelin restaurant on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It is a testament to seasonality, the finest ingredients, and artistic presentation. 2 It's about technique, not gimmicks. Another good example of the triumph of technique over gimmicks comes from Chef Jean Louis Nomicos, whose Les Tablettes. And sh...
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From the Gutt: March 2013
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Honest talk about food and wine. Saturday, March 9, 2013. The improbable genius of 6-minute microwave brownies. There's a recipe making the Internet rounds these days for 6-minute brownies. The paste-like batter for 6-minute microwave brownies. This is where the appeal of six-minute brownies comes. They're seductively easy and eliminate the normal brownie wait of 35 or 45 minutes of baking. Impulse indulgence, with little mess. This. But what's the worst that could happen? There are, however, two importa...
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