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All Things Consumed: 2009 Epicurean Highlights, From A to Z

[Tommy Oldre is Tablas Creek's national sales manager. This is the first entry in "All Things Consumed," an occasional chronicle of some of the highlights of eating and drinking around the country. Follow Tommy's journeys through the world of food and wine on Twitter:

Viognier, Oursins and Age

By Robert Haas A few days before Christmas I was consolidating the wines in my “cellar” -- refrigerated wine cabinets in our garage plus a refrigerated indoor wine closet -- in order to make room for a several new cases of young white wines, mostly Burgundies, that I recently got

Holiday Wine Suggestions - What We're Drinking this Christmas

I am always skeptical of holiday wine pairing articles that tell you the perfect wine to pair with a holiday meal. Holiday meals, of course, can vary enormously, and the right wine for your meal is the right wine for what you're eating. But we thought it would

Better Holiday Roasting - and Better Wine Pairing - with Barbara Kafka

[Barbara Kafka is a longtime friend of the Haas family and a limited partner in Tablas Creek. She is former food editor for Vogue, a frequent contributor to the New York Times and is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks. She contributed this article for an upcoming Tablas Creek newsletter,

Zester Daily and a new model for food and wine journalism

Earlier this fall, I was approached by Corie Brown to contribute an opinion piece to the new food and wine Web site Zester Daily. Corie was an editor and the wine columnist at the Los Angeles Times before they eliminated her department in 2008, and in her capacity there I

Easy Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe

After tinkering with blender mayonnaise recipes for a while, I got to one that is delicious, easy, and repeatable. And it's good to have a homemade mayonnaise recipe when you know you're staring down several days of leftover turkey sandwiches... Ingredients: 2 large egg yolks 1

Fall in Vermont

This essay, sent in from Vermont, is the next in an occasional series of articles by Robert Haas. After a rainy Vermont summer (was that summer?), fall has arrived with the leaves just beginning to turn color, apples ready to pick and the garden mostly put away for the winter

Andalusian Gazpacho Recipe

There is no food that is more evocative of summer than gazpacho. In the late summer, when local tomatoes are plentiful around most of the country, it's one of the easiest, most impressive ways to begin a summer meal. With the richness of the pureed bread, it can

A Response to Michael Pollan: It's Cool in the Kitchen Now

This past Sunday, Michael Pollan contributed a fascinating article to the New York Times Magazine called "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch" in which he tied together the rise of cooking shows on television and decline of cooking as an everyday part of life. The basic facts

10-Minute Blender Bearnaise Sauce Recipe

10-Minute Blender Bearnaise Sauce Recipe

I don't usually post recipes here. But, I'll make an exception because this one was so good, and so easy. Before I do, though, I should note that we do publish recipes in the information we send out with wine club shipments, and have compiled them