Food and Wine Exp.
This guy’s smoking cheese with a combination of beech wood, caraway, and fennel seeds. Doesn’t it look rad?
I’ve always wondered what the actual flavour difference between grass fed, conventional, organic beef was. What are you actually paying for? Does it taste different, or are you just voting with your dollars?
Last weekend at the Food and Wine Experience, I was finally able to see for myself.
With a blind taste test behind me, and my uppity self-image hanging in shame, I come before you ready to report that I like grain fed, conventional beef the best. Who knew.
Can you believe this is the first time I’ve ever been in a photo booth?
The format of food and wine events falls into two categories: metered and boozy-free-for-all-followed-by-drunken-stumbling-home.
In the “metered” category, I’m counting the beer fests where they give you tokens for tastes, and the food fests where you have passports to try everything once. This one fell into the other category, and I was soon making friends with people (oh god, I have turned into my mother) and eating platefulls of doughnuts.
Is it ultralame that I match my glasses to Jon’s shirt sometimes?
The wines, on whole, were medium. There were a few showstoppers, but overall it wasn’t anything to really scream and shout about. I’ve started this new love affair with the barcode scanner on my phone – I take pictures of wines that I dig and then it tells me where I can buy them for cheapest.
Technology is so lovely. Mom, you’re really missing out.