Our last afternoon in New Orleans found Michael Graves and I drinking absinthe around the corner from Faulkner’s house. It was early November — the sunny, dry sort of day that lends itself to open-air alcohol consumption, a cultural staple of the Big Easy. A professionally trained chef, Mike is the food guy to my booze […]
Monday night, after a day spent glued to the keyboard, I went to Amali, a sustainable Mediterranean restaurant on the Upper East Side, to taste a few wines by Bruno Trapan, the winemaker at Trapan Winery in Istria, Croatia. I went in knowing as much about Croatian wine as I do about neurosurgery, but I […]
If wine is the intersection of art and science, vodka is a hairy man with a mean uppercut. At least, that’s what I believed until last Monday. After a couple hours and a couple more drinks at The City Foundry in Sunset Park, David Kyrejko and Zachary Bruner managed to convince me otherwise. Kyrejko and […]
