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December 8th, 2009
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Author: With the upcoming holidays, we thought we’d highlight a few recent posts about wine that we wanted to make sure you saw:
Here’s “Drink a wine before its time” from Chris Pirillo. It’s about a wine aerator that would fit nicely in someone’s holiday stocking (I’ve got one myself and I love it).
Then there’s the Seattle Wine Blog with “Best holiday wine gifts for under twenty bucks,” the headline of which pretty much sums up what it’s about.
And, lastly, if you’re dining out over the holidays, be sure to read “Ask the bartender: The price of whine,” in which Maggie Savarino explains why that bottle of vino costs as much as it does at your local restaurant.
Cheers!
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Whether it’s marketing in overdrive or simply a case of jumping on the “Twilight” sequel fan bandwagon, the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle has created “The Bella Edward,” a sweet and sour cocktail that represents “the forces of good and evil, light and dark, and the passion and restraint of the romance between the two lead characters.”
You can get it at the hotel, or make your own, as they were nice enough to supply the recipe:
The Bella Edward
“A Cullen Family Cocktail”
Balsamic reduction
1 teaspoon raspberry puree
2 ½ ounces raspberry vodka
½ ounce Krupnik Honey Liqueur
Line the inside rim of a well-chilled martini glass with
the balsamic reduction. Add a teaspoon of the raspberry puree
to the bottom of the glass. In a shaker, combine the raspberry vodka
and honey liqueur with ice. Shake well and pour into glass.
- Recipe from the Sorrento Hotel
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Food lovers from inside and outside Seattle’s restaurant biz are holding a meet-up at the Palace Ballroom Nov. 2, featuring Thierry Rautureau (Rover’s), Ethan Stowel (How to Cook a Wolf) and Kurt Dammeier (Beecher’s Cheese). If you’re lucky, you could get in for free.
Attendees will be able to sample fine eats from local restaurants and get a glass of wine too. There’ll even be a “speed networking” session with Julien Perry, “restaurant reporter for KOMO, the Food Editor for WINO Magazine, a producer for Urbanspoon, and a contributing writer for Seattle Weekly,” according to the Foodportunity.com site.
If you want to go, you can get tickets via Foodportunity’s site, or you can enter a drawing to win a pair of $30 tickets to the event by answering a simple question about who you’d like to meet in the Seattle food scene. To enter the drawing, go to former Seattle P-I food writer and restaurant critic Rebekah Denn’s site, eatallaboutit.com.
I’d probably go with Dammeier as my pick if I had to choose, but it would be an agonizing decision because there are soooo many other excellent choices… After you enter on Rebekah’s site, let us know who you chose.
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Several interesting food- and drink-related items have caught my attention. Dunno, maybe I’m just hungry. Here they are in no particular order:
Happy hour at Aster Coffee Lounge now includes Wii Bowling!. It’s not exactly a replacement for Ballard’s Sunset Bowl, but it’s probably a safe bet the coffee is of better quality.
If you like wine, read about “La Tour Des Favorites En Woodinville.” Blogger Gene Stein is offering you a chance to go along on the next jaunt.
And here’s info about what sounds like a yummy new breakfast and lunch spot along Elliott Avenue for all you folks at F5, Classmates.com and Clear Channel.
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