November is here, which means that Thanksgiving is nearly upon us! For foodies and epicurians, few days are as delightful as is Thanksgiving with all of its meats, potatoes, casseroles, veggies, and...
It's summertime and it's hot. Here are 3 great wines to drink chilled: rose, "orange", and red!
On a recent archaeology trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, I fell in love… with tamarind! So why did I never encounter tamarind during my 15 years working in Syria? The pulp of the tamarind fruit...
“What Grows Together, Goes Together” Have you heard this adage about pairing food and wines? Local foods have been favored on menus for decades, now, as “farm-to-table” and...
Forget "A-Z", Jet Wine Bar has everything under the sun for Philly Wine Week 2019!
I love my jobs – that doesn’t mean I love every minute of each workday, but I’m pretty thrilled with both archaeology and the wine and food business. So, that makes it all the better to be able...
I’ll soon be heading back to one of my favorite areas of Italy: the Maremma. It is a beautiful part of Tuscany, including a large portion that borders the Tyrrhenian Sea. As always, I’ll be...
Tbilisi has an amazingly (to me) large number of wine bars and shops. It seemed there was at least one on nearly every block. With only a few, short days to sample them, I clearly didn’t visit them...
My very first introduction to Georgian wine was via the Finger Lakes; 6 or 7 years ago, I tasted Dr. K Frank’s 2008 Rkatsiteli and absolutely fell in love. As a result, I sought the grape from...
Philadelphians have some favorites, right? Grace Kelly, Sir Charles, Pink, the Roots, Jill Scott, the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles… the list goes on. Who else is on that list? Kevin Bacon...