While researching patatas a la riojana for a recent post on a wine dinner in Connecticut, I came across a series of cooking videos made in Spanish by a blogger in San Sebastián named José Mari. His blog is called Cocinar para los amigos, or ‘Cook for your friends,’ and I am having a really hard time trying NOT to watch all of them, TONIGHT.
The time has finally arrived: the Culinary Institute of American at Greystone has just announced the release of “Discovering Rioja,” an educational documentary on the region now available in both webcast form and as a free DVD from the Prochef.com website.
Every so often I come across a blog that’s such a joy to read, so lovely to gaze upon, that I find myself lost in the minutiae of things I had no idea I gave a damn about–the cyber-version of a really good, really random New Yorker magazine.
Last night I checked out a blog called Fedification, written by former Martha Stewart Living producer Mari Uyehara, who’s traveling around Thailand for the next several months and has recently started sending tasty dispatches out into the ether, posts on mangosteens and kao soi (egg noodle curry soup) and the difficulty in getting a proper cocktail in Bangkok, accompanied by vibrant and, yes, sexy photographs of liquid refreshments, freshly ravaged fruit, and hot chili-speckled pools of curry-colored deliciousness.
About the Blog
BLAME IT ON RIOJA, a wine blog mostly about Spain's premier winemaking region, is the online home for the tasting notes, travel dispatches, random thoughts, and thoughtful rants of Vibrant Rioja spokesperson Adrian Murcia, a New York-based sommelier, writer, educator, and unreformed lifetime Riojaphile.
Adrian Murcia, the fromager and assistant sommelier at New York City’s Chanterelle, is a writer, educator, and consultant specializing in wine and cheese pairings and the gastronomy of Spain. His work has appeared in Santé, Saveur, Wine & Spirits, and on Condé Nast’s Epicurious.com. Adrian hosts quarterly wine and cheese Sunday Salons at Chanterelle and is a frequent guest lecturer at Murray’s Cheese in Greenwich Village and the Tria Fermentation School in Philadelphia. He became a media consultant and national spokesperson for Vibrant Rioja in September 2006.
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