It appears that Thomas Jefferson left a legacy beyond the magnificent discovery of the French/Freedom Fries. He was also an avid wine lover and connoisseur and therefore introduced the wine-making culture to his native land. Via
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I have to admit whenever I hear of a restaurant that claims to be the best or the oldest I tend to be a bit weary. So when I heard that Fior d’Italia was the oldest Italian restaurant in the States I was a bit skeptical. To begin with it seemed like a bit of…
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Sir Winston Churchill, on his visit to the Madeira island was honored with Vintage Madeira, the rarest brand of wine. Back then in 1950, he was served with this rare 1792 vintage wine bottled in 1840. This wine was already 158 years old when Sir Winston Churchill tasted it for the first time and what’s…
This is the inaugural article series where I feature products I love. Let’s face it…it will mostly be food and drink items. I was inspired when I took in the Make It show, in Saint Albert in April. It was chalk full of well curated small businesses, but one stood in particular. FrostBites, which is…
I just received a sample bottle of Boca Loca, “Crazy Lips” Cachaça. Which I have to admit, happily stuck in my wine-rut, I wasn’t so sure what it was. So I read the PR release which said: “Cachaça is Brazilian liquor made from distilled sugar cane juice. So is rum, but rum is made from…
Trattoria Stella well represents Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, in which it sits. Both the restaurant and the neighborhood are an eclectic, entertaining, attractive, often weird mix of old and new. The Highlands of Northwest Denver is made up of Victorian buildings, either nearly crumbling or in mid-renovation, sitting side-by-side with 60s-era high-rise apartments and new half-million-dollar-…