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Posts tagged "NYTimes"

Fri Jun 11
Brewers Take Risks to Make Sour Beers

The NYTimes on the bourgeoning Sour Beer market. Glad to see it expanding. Russian River Brewing’s delightfully sour beers fermented with Brettanomyces yeast and aged in oak are among my current favorites. Although there is also some wisdom in the remarks of Ron Gansberg, the brewmaster at Cascade Brewing, “I didn’t sign on to the hops arms race and I’m not going to go down the road of, ‘My beer is more sour than yours.’ ”

Fri Feb 5
In the Shadow of the Olympics

The NY Times on the homeless population of Downtown Eastside Vancouver. So true; I’ve never seen such a throng. It made the Tenderloin seem like a vast uninhabited countryside.

Wed Nov 11
Dress Codes - Late 19th-Century Décor and Dress Is Back in Fashion

This Just in From the 1890s: the NYTimes on the latest chapter in the hipster obsession with a tough yet classy late 19th century. Rough hewn and taxidermied interior decorating has progressed to the tweed ride documented with wet-plate photography.

Mon Aug 17
BB&T Takes Over Failing Colonial BancGroup

Bobby Lowder has kept his touch:

The NY Times reports that after several months of embattlement, failure caught up with Colonial BancGroup as Alabama state regulators officially closed it on Friday.

Sun Aug 16
“ We are bound to disagree, but let’s disagree over issues that are real, and not wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that anyone has actually proposed.
Barack Obama, as an Op-Ed Contributor to the NY Times—Why We Need Health Care Reform
Tue Aug 4
Os Gêmeos - Slide Show

The NY Times, with some images of the first public artwork in Manhattan by the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos. Roberta Smith describes the mural, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, as bringing graffiti art to its Rococo phase.

Sat Jul 18
Going Back in Time to Old England, Sip by Sip

The NY Times posits that as time continues and the English can define themselves less and less as being British, perhaps the traditional English pub offers itself as a defining cultural institution to cling to.

Tue Jun 16
Health Benefit? How About Pleasure?

The NY Times’ Pour Blog has it: happy people live longer. Any analysis of wine deeper than that and it gets too complex to ever really figure out. Reductionist science almost never really works (it just seems to until 50 years later when more is known). Not that this type of science should be discouraged—it is an important means of progressing understanding on very complex interrelated subjects—it should just not be the basis for informing the practical day to day decisions of how to live (that is what common sense is for).

Tue May 5
Out of Tequila’s Shadow - Mezcal

The NY Times on the other Mexican spirit:

Like tequila, mezcal is distilled from fermented juice of the pineapple-shaped core — piña — of a succulent plant called the agave. (Tequila, made in Jalisco and a few other states, uses only a variety called blue agave.)

Tequila makers cook the piñas in ovens, sometimes in tequila factories. But mezcaleros roast the piñas in earthen mounds over pits of hot rocks. Each village can be home to dozens of small-market distilleries, called fábricas or palenques.

It’s this underground roasting that gives mezcal its intense and distinctive smokiness — one of the qualities that draws its most passionate fans.

My curiosity is piqued.

Mon May 4
Shaken and Stirred - Vodka Dead? Not So Fast

The NY Times ponders the possibility of good vodka cocktails.

when sizing up a bar, he looks for a few crucial signposts of quality: fresh juices, rather than pre-made sour mix; bottled bitters and chilled glasses in evidence; and the bartenders’ use of jiggers, to measure a drink’s ingredients. Oh, and one more thing: “A lack of vodka.”

I wouldn’t go quite that far, but marketing the taste of something that is supposed to be tasteless will always be ludicrous.

Fri Apr 17
36 Hours in Birmingham, Ala.

The NY Times travels to BHM for a brief visit. Mostly what you would expect—Vulcan, Highlands, Civil Rights, Continental, Barber, Miss Myra’s…

So really, I do totally get why the stereotype fitting, hole-in-the-wall barbecue joint appeals to an out of towner, but come on Jim Noles, couldn’t you have wandered next door? Ok, so maybe 2 or 3 doors down, but still, why not give a new place a try! :)