Tips from a sommelier on how to maximize your enjoyment of an evening out to dinner.

The BeyHive…the Swifties…believers in gods…yoga practitioners…gun nuts…comic book collectors…Trump supporters… Why are these things “things”?  It’s simple; because people need cults.   I know that doesn’t track immediately, so I had a whole long, well-considered, beautifully articulated think-piece constructed as proof-of-concept  I was raised in a cult, and know a thing or two about the […]

I am a Son of Wisconsin!  America’s Dairyland!  Home of the Green Bay Packers!  Cheeseheads!  Miller Beer!  Unusually high levels of morbid obesity! The Wisconsin of my youth was unique; rustic, yet refined…unruly, yet civilized.  I used to call it “Smart Texas” (in that we were into guns and hunting and freedom, but also math […]