Chef’n Garlic Zoom

I bought this silly looking, and even sillier named, kitchen gadget because I chop a lot of garlic and this seemed to be just the thing for the garlic junkie in me. It works pretty well, but I use it only when I need more than one clove. It’s easy to use, although I find [...]

Turley 2002 Dusi Ranch Zinfandel

Just in case you weren’t confident that wine writers are detached from reality, here are two quotations from reviews of a wine that we drank on Saturday evening. Actually, I drank it. The wife sneered at me when I offered a taste.

“…aromas of black cherry, plum and licorice, with liqueur-like ripeness. Sweet, thick and velvety, [...]