tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35591728526634951142024-03-05T07:43:55.652-06:00messy little thingsmessy little thingsmessylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-92168464411256007552012-07-31T14:58:00.001-05:002013-02-01T11:31:28.360-06:00So you want to be a bartender?<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been missing in action for a lot longer than I wanted to be because I’ve been head down into my job juggle. I recently left my job as a spirits representative in order to cut more teeth on the other side of the bar. I found that I’d rather be using spirits than selling them and I’ve been waiting for the dust to settle. I’ve been bartending a bit at a few places around town and I can tell you that bartending is not just some gig that you can decide to take one day and prosper. If that’s what you really think it is, here are my warnings to you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. You will bruise--above the knees where your rail is located and on the palm of your hand if you haven’t learned a proper way to pop a shaker (or you continue to put them on too tight). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. You will wake up in the morning (I mean afternoon) wondering where your morning went. You will also go to get up and realize you can’t move your biceps or thighs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. You’ll have more appreciation for evolution and your opposable thumbs. They hurt especially on small hands when wrapped around Boston shakers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. You better learn your difference between a French 75, 76, and 77. Your classic cocktail repertoire better consist of an Aviation, Blood & Sand, Last Word, Vieux Carre, and a Sazerac. If you don’t know what an Old Fashioned is and a proper one at that, you should probably think about doing something else. Oh and yes you’ll be asked for a Mojito or Cosmopolitan on the regular but it’s totally okay if you never remember those recipes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Learn how to like Fernet and beer and learn how to hold it. Two items that I would never have ordered at a bar but you will be offered multiple Fernet shots and sometimes it serves the same purpose as a coffee so you won’t deny it. You also better like beer because you sure as hell will want a drink when you’re done and it sure as hell won’t be wine or a cocktail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Learn how to survive on cold food and snacks but if you don’t even have that, learn how to survive on Fernet and beer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Ladies, manicured nails are done forever. Don’t wear tube tops because reaching for tall glassware causes for inappropriate mishaps. Don’t wear white-you will ruin your favorite lace, white top when you accidentally spray yourself with Peychaud’s mist and not your cocktail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Also ladies, if you’re offended by sexual innuendos or conversations about women’s panties or even the possibility of witnessing blatant pornography through a gap in a wooden fence on the patio of the bar you work in (thank you East 6th street), this might not be the job for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a more serious note, I’m a lucky girl to be surrounded by bartenders who are happy and doing a job they love for a living, who devote themselves to creativity and authenticity, and don’t really care what those around them have to say about their choice to live an alternative lifestyle. I appreciate their dedication to bringing people an experience and I’m happy to be surrounded by my people.</span>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-31552826849714566332012-03-23T17:45:00.000-05:002013-02-01T11:32:40.263-06:00Weather Up<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lived in New York for six years and cannot think of a time I spent in Tribeca. I had no reason to. I lived on the Upper West Side and then Brooklyn, spent a lot of late nights out in the East or West Village, a lot of working on the Upper East Side and well, a lot of shopping and eating in between. I did go to a lot of movies in the quiet theatre of Battery Park and well, Tribeca just got lost. My one memory of Tribeca was a long walk from the Financial District to a diner on West 8th and I ran into people I knew standing outside at a bar there and preceded to smoke with said company on the stoop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now two years later, I’m walking from the West Village to Tribeca to purposely find an unassuming bar off of West Broadway. I’m looking for Weather Up, the offshoot of the Prospect Heights-located bar opened up by Kathryn Weatherup. For a Friday night, it’s not crowded. Signage doesn’t exist and when you’re this tucked away in Tribeca, this is certainly speakeasy style. You have to know where you’re going in order to get here. There’s no elbowing, pushing, or fighting for a bartender’s attention. The host greets you at the door and gets you your booth for five within fifteen minutes. The staff is approachable and sweet but can obviously handle their bar crowd and did I mention extremely good-looking? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The back bar is admirable and I’m mesmerized by the cracking of large cubes of ice and the tiny girl in their prep corner spot cutting fresh mint at 8:30pm on a Friday. The interior is made to look the inside of a subway station but the ambiance is far from cold. I’m taking a token of singed hair with me from their well-placed bar candles. Words of advice: it’s not poetic to admire an ice program while your hair’s on fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Weather Up pays homage to pre-prohibition and does it without taking any shortcuts. What this place does is take classic recipes, most a little lesser known, with quality ingredients and handles them with care. Recipes are measured, products bought are well-made, and the most admired ice doesn’t bruise the final product. It enhances it with clear color and perfect shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Weather Up is known for its intense ice program using a Clinebell machine that produces 300 pound slabs of ice every three to four days. The bar then has someone in the basement chiseling away for the final product.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t know about you but it was exciting to see what they did in Tribeca and Brooklyn. I’m just as excited and curious to see what they can do here in Austin and how these New Yorkers will be received when they open up in just a short time.</span>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-26408661722083152602012-03-18T23:20:00.001-05:002013-02-01T11:33:00.054-06:00Absinthe<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There has undoubtedly been a resurgence in eating weird and bizarre foods. Everyone that has dreamed of world tours alongside Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain wants to be able to eat pig intestine, duck embryos, and cow’s blood without a wince. I applaud your adventurous nature while I skate the line myself between sparing my own gag reflex and preaching my own sentiment by being as fearless an eater as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why are these types of foods considered so out there? Why do we have aversions to these in the first place? Taste aversion or having a simple association between a certain food and one singular nauseous experience is circumstantial. It’s not a fear. Is it just simply stepping out of our comfort zones? Why is it the same with alcohol? We have aversions but why are we simply afraid of certain spirits? Why does absinthe get a “bizarre” spirit reputation? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are just as likely to get sick from an E. Coli breakout in spinach than we are a grasshopper. We’re just as likely to get the same drunk hangover from too many navy-strength rums or gin than we are absinthe. Is it merely the society we live in? Possibly. With so much of today’s society obsessed with the idea of a counterculture or this adventurous foodie syndrome, why are drinks taking a back burner? Why do we dive right in to beef tongue and brains while absinthe still gets drunk in bar spoons, dashes, and in a general fear of the green fairy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The original absinthe recipe was based on green anise and fennel flavors and used for medicinal purposes. This was done very similarly to juniper concoctions that eventually translated into our contemporary genevers and gins. In the middle of the 1800’s, French troops were given absinthe to subside malaria poisoning and then brought the taste for it back to their home country. It was drunk by all classes as it proved to be a cheap spirit and at one point, more liters were drunk than wine in France. Absinthe was in popular culture to be the drink of choice to bohemians and artists including Edgar Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and most famously, Ernest Hemingway. Absinthe eventually made its way to the US and gained a place in its own Belle Epoque in the city of New Orleans. This time period famously instituted The Old Absinthe House and the classic cocktail, the Sazerac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where did all these bans and bad raps come from? Similar to prohibition in the U.S. in the 1920’s, Europe found their own temperance movements taking form at the end of the 1800’s where radical conservatives outcried against drunken debauchery. Hallucinogenic portrayals of the drink in art as well as certain scientific studies on rats perpetuated the arguments. In a scientific study, it was concluded that wormwood, a major ingredient in absinthe, had a chemical called thujone and when ingested in large amounts caused absinthe’s undesired effects. The tipping point occurred when a Swiss farmer named Jean Lafray murdered his wife and two children in 1905 after a heavy day of drinking. Although seven glasses of wine, six glasses of cognac, two glasses of creme de menthe, and two coffees laced with brandy were involved, the two glasses of absinthe got the blame. What ensued were formal petitions and the banning of absinthe in Switzerland and then the other European countries followed suit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1912, the US banned any import of absinthe and close to 100 years later lifted the ban in 2007 to allow the distillation and import of absinthe. The FDA will only allow absinthes with a thujone level of 10 mg/kg or lower but it allows some lenience for a lot of imported absinthes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Officially, the ban has been lifted and we can now import another interesting and bizarre spirit to the market but how do you lift the certain stigma it’s carried? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily for us, we have dedicated scientists and fellow spirits nerds searching for what all the fuss used to be about. People like Ted Breaux who have used their knowledge of science and spirits have compared older obscure absinthes to the kinds that tainted absinthe’s reputation. There were many laced with chemical tastes and the others were full, well-crafted, herbal, and balanced. Nowadays, the absinthes among us are made more with care rather than with older crude techniques. The art of “louching” is what we’ve seen in vintage posters. This is where water drips over sugar cubes placed on a slotted spoon over a glass of absinthe to create a milky effect. Because of better crafted-spirits, this is less needed nowadays as absinthe has become more approachable. St. George in California has even begun distilling their own absinthe here in the U.S. and Tenneyson brings their proof down to 100 to compete with gins and more popular spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In order to begin dispelling your fear, know that drinking a couple bottles of absinthe is just as bad as a couple bottles of cognac. Know that you’re enjoying a spirit of authenticity, history, and a flavor profile that rivals very few other spirits. To be fairly honest, I live in hallucinations of sipping on absinthe at a tiny French cafe in 1890’s with writers and painters of the time but those hallucinations aren’t absinthe-induced, I promise. You might actually have to use your imagination and step out of your comfort zone. For those of you interested in the bizarre, the strange, and drinking alongside the counterculture, this spirit is for you. With all the flannel and thick-rimmed glasses I see, I don’t see why this drink isn’t more popular. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ll admit it. I've been slacking on the blogger front but not slacking from drinking and eating my way around Austin for the past month and a half thanks to New Job. Because of this, I’m getting to know my taste buds on an extremely personal level. I’ve come of age and feel like I can finally start to differentiate the dishes and drinks that impress me, the ones I can appreciate, and the ones that make me more comfortable in the art of criticism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m a purist. I’ve come to realize that more than anything I appreciate a singularly fantastic ingredient- something from the ground turned into something fabulous because it was made well with care. Then, I can appreciate a person who can take that ingredient and complement it with simple but other singularly fantastic ingredents. I like one dish or drink composed with a fair few flavors that all enhance and not overpower one another. I've lately been overenthusiastic about the art of simple balance. Here have been some of my favorite examples:</span><br />
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messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-28991586779194015812012-02-16T13:01:00.000-06:002013-02-01T11:40:48.642-06:00Solitude<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was a solitary week. I’ve spent eleven years in customer service and seven in restaurants. When you live this lifestyle, people surround you at all times from the clientele to your co-workers. Some interactions can be unpleasant, maddening, and appalling. Some can leave you smiling and can even change your perspective on life. Maybe sometimes if you’re lucky, you can return the favor and blow their minds with dry sherry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "American Typewriter";">I miss it. I’ve been craving social interaction more than I have chocolate ice cream this week. Not that I’ve been hibernating, I’ve been taking walks with my best and her babe, seeing old friends at the coffee shop, and meeting some of my favorite professional colleagues for cocktails but it is surely not the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "American Typewriter";">Now I spend a lot of time writing, reading, cold-calling, tasting with strangers, driving my car, running, planning, budgeting, brainstorming, guitar-picking, book-browsing, and sleeping. I know this sounds fantastic and idealistic but it is comforting going to the same space five days a week and seeing your co-workers who you spend more time with than you do your own family. Then you leave the lifestyle and your friends who are in the restaurant industry work... when you don’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "American Typewriter";">As I transition to this new life of solitude which I’m sure I will love in a week or so, I’ve had to find comforts in other things. One of them has been getting back into the kitchen and rather than snacking on cheese, marcona almonds, and the quick hamburger, I’ve been varying things up and mainly with a little help from my friends:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was looking for the right word recently to describe how nostalgic I can be. Nostalgia isn’t quite the word as I don’t yearn to be somewhere in the past, I just tend to be sentimental about my position in time and space. For instance, I love when a couple years down the road in a relationship, lovers are finally able to talk about the agonizing first dates or the previous unrequited love. Or realizing that someone you know well now was having a conversation with your best friend’s husband halfway across the country before you even knew them. I tend to over-think things but I recently went through my old blog and was reading some posts I wrote over a year ago when I first moved to Austin. I wrote this one after I bought my first book on classic cocktails:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After this past week, I can’t help but laugh after reading that post not having any idea I would have a job representing the most interesting and unique liquor portfolio in Texas. I also laugh at the last line not having any idea what I would actually mean when I said I was beginning my foray into heavy drinking. Although I did have a hard time transitioning, this past week, the work and the perks made me realize how lucky I am as my current job requires me to be at places like the San Antonio Cocktail Conference and requires me to taste some damn good liquors with their importers and distillers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tasting through <a href="http://bittermens.com/" target="_blank">Bittermens</a> line of bitter liqueurs at Haddington's with Janet and Avery themselves. I'm a sucker for the citron sauvage myself: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">…especially when you have to stand around at the Virtuoso tasting tables for eight hours at nine am the next day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tasting and loitering with David Suro of <a href="http://www.siembraazul.com/" target="_blank">Siembra Azul</a> when it’s all said and done:</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve been putting off a new blog post. I don’t like excuses but I’ve been quite busy getting well-acquainted with my new job, new car, and trying to come to terms with the Fino afterlife. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "American Typewriter";">Then someone reminds you’re from the East Coast and living somewhere else can still be traveling when you think about it or you venture into an area of Austin uncomfortable and unfamiliar and then you’re reminded that you don’t know as much as you think you do. You entitle yourself to one space but not much more than that.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Why can’t the same go for your hometown? When you realize that a vacation to New York is in the top 3 destinations of friends of yours and you go, “Huh?”. Going home to New Jersey, I tend to entitle myself to my parents’ couch and maybe if I can get off that couch, go and relive my old comfortable and familiar route that I had when I lived in New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My Christmas trip was an experiment in entitling myself to more space. I treated it as travel and took advantage of my close vicinity to the two largest metropolitan cities and attempted to fuse the life I live now and the life I had:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Oyster House</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have been obsessed over Find. Eat. Drink.’s travel guides and when I found out that Michael Vetri’s Osteria was not open when I needed it to be, I referred myself to these guides and found Oyster House.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The ambience is relaxing and the décor cooling and when you want to enjoy a no-fuss, all-around good experience, this isn’t a bad place to do it. The oysters are savory and the tables set up with horseradish and crackers made them even more fun to slurp down. I had heard some murmurings of punch here so I ordered the Gunpowder Punch, cardamom, white pepper, rye, blue lady tea, and citrus. I'm just going to say that large cubes of ice make me erotically excited so you can imagine my disappointment with some small rocks in my mason jar. As far as the rest of the drink, it paired well with oysters and stayed nice and light but was a bit heavy on the pepper and spice. I’m going to just go ahead and call myself spoiled and move on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I think my favorite part of this place are the names of the cocktails. Is there a job that I can have where I can just create names for cocktails? </span></div> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Husker Hail Mary- Landy VS Cognac, Laird's Applejack, Cynar, Carpano Antica, Hidalgo PX, Angostura, Aromatic Bitters, Clove Tincture</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. El Presidente- El Dorado rum, Grand Marnier, Dolin Blanc Vermouth, Grenadine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Philadephia- Batavia Arrack, Amaro Montenegro, Cocchi Americano, Falernum Bitters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The waitress described the latter as funky and I describe it as funky mind-blowing. Who thought of that and how did they make it work?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">New York</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Stumptown</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I thought it should be appropriate to make it to Stumptown- New York and Brooklyn’s mecca baby of coffee roasters. I thought I should give it a fair shot now knowing what I know and treated myself to a cappuccino made with some serious love and Hair Bender from my barista. It was quite a nice respite to sip on while at the bar looking out on a New York City street through the rain. How poetic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dram Bar</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then when you snap back to reality and walk out to a dirty Williamsburg city street, you turn the corner and end up at Dram. It’s a tiki-esque and friendly bar and again, completely unpretentious but right on. The “Loose Noose” was perfectly wise and straightforward- a blend of white sand beach bum and New York street smart. Then they busted out a bartender’s choice white dog old-fashioned without a hitch. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I definitely tried to claim a little bit more space in my old stomping grounds and entitle myself to a little bit more in the world. I felt like I expanded greatly but my favorite dishes on this trip included farfalle and salmon in a light pink cream sauce, bruschetta, tartufo, cannoli, more linguini and more seafood in a light pink cream sauce, and well, what I’ve missed most of all- bodega coffee and a bagel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I went back home to New Jersey for Christmas and when I go back to my childhood home, I can’t help but to revert back to childhood dreams, memories, and desires. My bookshelf in my room is full of Lonely Planet guides, memoirs of people curing infectious diseases, how to teach yourself guitar, how to get into college theatre programs, guides to human rights law, and environmental essays. In my brain, all of these eventually led to work in a non-profit organization visiting children in Africa with AIDS or creating programs to mentor young women. I was going to change the culture whether I was a lawyer or a famous musician. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now I visit home for Christmas from Austin, Texas and when I get back, I am about to embark on a new job in the new year. In a blink of the eye, I’ve scored a job as a spirits representative in Austin and San Antonio and my focus on the bar community has gotten me further in a career than any other of these lavish human rights campaigns. Not only do I feel like something's working but I feel so at home with my bar brethren. I find myself alone on this vacation craving Idido pourovers and finding my sparkling water in need of a dash of bitters. I also jumped a little too quickly on the Oban 14 year in my cousins’ basement in a desperate attempt to feel high off of pears, honey, and wood. Now that I'm back, I'm ready to kick it in to high gear and start selling some obscure liqueurs but reflecting on my trip home and my bookshelf of past dreams has had me thinking, what am I doing now for the greater good? We try so hard to convert people from their dirty vodka martinis, their Grey Goose and sodas, and their Crown and Cokes. We want to change the culture one vodka-cranberry at a time but really- what am I and others in the field trying to do here? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I found this definition:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To enhance: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1. To heighten; to increase or improve in value, quality, desirability, or attractiveness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2. To make greater, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I don’t think you need statistics to realize that drinking is part of our American lives whether it’s the coffee we drink in the morning, the afternoon tea, your happy hour cocktail, and wine nightcaps. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that our eating and drinking habits are our most treasured interactions that we have with our planet. When we are drinking coffee, we are drinking from roasted beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Indonesia. When we’re at the bar, we’re drinking barley from Scotland, agave from Mexico, herbs from the base of the Alps, and grapes from Sicily. We drink coffee for our morning buzz, tea for our peaceful release, and alcohol in order to lose our inhibitions and say what we really feel. We’re engaging all of our senses in bitterness, tannin, sweet, sour, flowers, cedar, leather, and vanilla from plants all over our world and all the while affecting the land, the coffee farmers, and the jimadors. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If I can make your buzz stronger and your calm more peaceful all by showing you that you are also enhancing the lives of those halfway around the world, I’ve done a good job. If I can replace your ethanol experience with an Old Tom Gin Martinez and blow away your senses with sweet, cherry, herbs, and roses that you’ll remember five years from now, I’ve done a good job. If I can get you to step out of your comfort zone and try something you have never even heard of before, I’ve done a good job.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I know I may be waxing poetic or stretching it here. I could possibly be full of it or it might not be that big of a deal. Maybe I’m just selling vermouth but what I do know is that all of my personal conversations, experiences, and thoughtful moments by myself are enhanced when a cappuccino blows my mind or my cocktail blends to perfection. I’ll remember that moment exactly for its sight, smell, and taste and be reminded of it when I sense it again. It enhances a moment and everyday experiences to the next level and I think that’s what we’re really trying to do here. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To follow up on some viral ideas, my 2012 word is enhance. I will do my best to do it not just in the careers or accounts I’m taking on but in every aspect of my life. I want to pay attention to its detail, try something I haven’t tried before, and enhance our small everyday moments in every way possible. I’d like to not just to that for myself but to stretch the ideas far and wide and enhance the lives of others and those around me in tiny and sensual ways. I'd also like to take more time to properly thank those who have enhanced my life. To that, a shot of Batavia arrack.</span></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-73865512508299566992011-12-12T22:30:00.000-06:002011-12-12T22:30:22.523-06:00Comfort Food<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">You know, I promised myself that I would try and stay disciplined enough with this blog to keep something up every week and I’m a little disappointed that I haven’t written something in a while. I’ve been a little overwhelmed to be honest with you. Christmastime apparently does this to people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I consider myself a fairly sane and rational human being who takes on problems with flexibility and critical thinking. This doesn’t mean that I’m immune to the occasional breakdown and/or shutdown. Since Thanksgiving, this has happened a bit too often due to overheated radiators, rear-ended pickup trucks, hacked itunes accounts, botched apple butters, bare gift lists, drained savings accounts, and the possibility of a career change. This all needing to be fixed and taken care of so I can be full of life with gorgeous hair and nails before I leave for a trip home to New Jersey in less than two weeks. (Gulp.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This is a food blog though and not my personal therapist so here are the things that have made me smile and reminded me that life is okay when your belly is full. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A post-work huge bacon cheeseburger paired with a shot of Fernet Branca at Sputnik:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Dim Sum at Shanghai with your co-workers, eating chicken feet for the first time, and black sesame green tea buns:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Cheering on a good friend and helping to pour his Baby’s First Punch at Austin’s Drink Local competition: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Even though the product caused a meltdown, the late night spent cutting apples with your best friend makes up for it:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The beauty of everything produced and learned at the bar and restaurant you’ll be leaving on January 7<sup>th</sup>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Sometimes we just need reminders and a little comfort food.</span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sunday is the Sabbath day. I grew up being taught this and practiced it to the fullest at one Christian point in my past. Since my spiritual exploration in eastern religions, a theology minor, and a job in the restaurant industry, I’m not such a stickler about Sundays being a day of rest. Years of brunches later, I may have gotten enough seniority to have some Sundays off but somehow I still say yes to work. Even though I’ve had the past three Sundays to catch some rest, I will admit that they weren’t spent dogmatically. Of course, this doesn’t mean I haven’t enjoyed myself and maybe so with sinfully good food and libations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Day of Rest #1</i>- Our kitchen at Fino was one man down serving up some paella at <a href="http://www.greencornproject.org/" target="_blank">Green Corn Project’s</a> annual Fall Festival at Boggy Creek Farm so I happily obliged. Green Corn Project is a Central Texas non-profit that promotes education and growing of organic produce and gardens. Every year restaurants and small businesses in the Austin area set up a small shop to satiate the donors. Fino put up some vegetable paella, meaty paella, and this tortilla espanola- a traditional Spanish omelette made with chicken eggs straight from our chef de cuisine’s farm. </span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The most frustrating times I had starting at Fino were had at our server meetings. It’s hard to believe I know if you have read my past few posts citing certain love affairs with these wine tastings. It was a boys’ club of know-it-alls talking about pencil shavings and lead, visions of forest floors, and baking cookies with Grandma at Christmas time. I made fun of these people while I would cook dinner with Jackie later that evening talking about how awful it was listening to this pretentious banter. I would smell and sniff and yes, I would finally get something. Grapes. Oh, well, right. Wine is made from grapes. How poetic.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">I spent most of the year finally realizing that what I was smelling were actual things and not just grapes. I was getting that fruit but which one? Peach? Yes, that’s it! Biscuits you say?! Yes! That’s what I wanted to say! I knew it was something- I just didn’t know what. </span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Then I realized that the only way to ever understand was to practice. I had to immerse myself in the culture in order to learn the language. When I decided to not be so judgmental of my cohorts, to stick to the wine and beverage career path, not I only did I have to smell these things but I had to talk about them and in turn, have some opinions.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">After google searches for aroma classes and websites on how to prime your palate, I came to the realization that the only way to practice was to engage in this pretentious banter on a regular basis. Here’s how I did that:</span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">cuppings @ Houndstooth</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">tequila, sotol, and mezcal tasting @ Fino</span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Something eventually clicked over time. I now feel more comfortable with the process and the conversation especially when I can smell my mother making me a peanut butter and jam sandwich in my New Jersey kitchen or a walk with my great uncle to tend his garden in our joint backyard growing up. I also feel comfortable talking about the smell of ash and smoke that brings me to Oaxaca, Mexico if I can’t physically be there. Now these things I can identify. These things are what I can appreciate in a cup of coffee or a (sipped) shot of tequila. </span></div> <span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">It’s also nice when a cocktail with no trace of espresso can bring you to visions of a cup of coffee had on your balcony wrapped in a blanket with a book:</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jerry Thomas' Coffee Cocktail @ Fino - brandy, port, egg, and sugar</span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Nowadays you’ll find me engaging in the banter and being one of those in the clique-y club but you’ll also find me in my own romantic dreams of future travels and past memories. You don’t have to be part of a boy’s club or feel pretentious to be capable of that.</span></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-78840773550552494382011-10-31T16:19:00.005-05:002011-11-01T12:46:54.324-05:00embracing austin autumn<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have come down with a heavy case of homesickness in the month of October dreaming of these blustery New York days in said boots and sweaters with hot to-go cups of said teas. Then I take a walk with friends through Central Park, red and orange leaves on the trees, ending up on the cobblestone sidewalks of Museum Mile, paying a measly dollar donation in order to browse the 19th century section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">After a Saturday afternoon tasting all of these, you end up in a nice Autumn haze to forget all about your homesickness.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.75pt; text-indent: -9.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-26415444491531013752011-10-22T13:36:00.000-05:002011-10-22T13:36:10.992-05:00fall fino food photographyI was commissioned or commissioned myself should I say to photograph the new fall food menu items at Fino. Here is my experimenting with rad iPhone applications:<br />
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">I’ve never been on a blind date. This is probably because physical attraction is important to me. I’d hate to come off shallow but I’ve always been a big believer that physical chemistry is an important aspect of any relationship- one lasting for years and one just beginning. This doesn’t at all mean that relationships should be based on looks alone. Sometimes attraction comes along over a few months of dates, sometimes it just takes a look across a wine bar. What I learned at a blind wine tasting is that first sight is not something to be ignored.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvnbRCHnPWKeo3rC0yEBBuuLIo0-S5PSigDVEhy46qzEaICza2p_T0phxrbJXwFfLYmR4V_dbH-lPb0fOPZr49rSo8qkxX9iBwlAlESbTiWdp_eC5ffT64EtEcCYNyD1irar2YhFflp8/s1600/photo+5%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvnbRCHnPWKeo3rC0yEBBuuLIo0-S5PSigDVEhy46qzEaICza2p_T0phxrbJXwFfLYmR4V_dbH-lPb0fOPZr49rSo8qkxX9iBwlAlESbTiWdp_eC5ffT64EtEcCYNyD1irar2YhFflp8/s320/photo+5%25281%2529.JPG" width="168" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <br />
<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><i><b> Appearance</b>:</i> garnet, purple, bloody red, shallow, pink-silver rim, nice legs.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Shallow you say? You can describe a wine’s appearance in depth by tilting it back to have a center line of vision. Does the wine change color the farther back you look? If it does, it has depth. If not, it’s “shallow”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Pink-silver rim? This is obviously a red wine and more of a brown or orange color at the rim can be a sign of oxidization or age. Pink-silver? We’ve still got something young on our hands. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">After you swirl your wine around, there is a ring of liquid near the top of the glass and droplets which fall back into the wine. These are called “legs” or “tears”. It occurs because of the differences in surface tension and evaporation rates of water versus alcohol but to get to the point, visible legs mean a higher alcohol content. We all show a little more leg with a higher alcohol content.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><b><i>Nose:</i></b> alcohol (I know but some burn more than others), cherry, jammy, oak, baking spice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Mm, baking spice. Did you know that the baking spice in an Old World wine means it’s been in aged in oak for an amount of time. Another sign that this wine is young but yet older than probably two years.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><b><i>Taste:</i></b> quartz, chalk, rock, high alcohol, savory, herbaceous, green pepper, fruit and wood tannin, medium acidity, concord grape, salty, dusty, salami, white pepper.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">So depth, age, and the sight of visible legs and a higher alcohol content can all be told before the wine is even tasted or your date even seen. As our date was revealed, it happened to be this:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkvtUt9YnnToWshqfN3S6cWqmVhucfMqthzxeZpwikUpwH8Hey9H7hHbxTsTaVjghB1vTXeKFZ-rrHwY4brhu4r-Um2FdvuaserHah-jbejD0tHIFCwmZeGsxotb3S7Wgl4antJ-UaBo/s1600/photo+4%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkvtUt9YnnToWshqfN3S6cWqmVhucfMqthzxeZpwikUpwH8Hey9H7hHbxTsTaVjghB1vTXeKFZ-rrHwY4brhu4r-Um2FdvuaserHah-jbejD0tHIFCwmZeGsxotb3S7Wgl4antJ-UaBo/s320/photo+4%25282%2529.JPG" width="241" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvnbRCHnPWKeo3rC0yEBBuuLIo0-S5PSigDVEhy46qzEaICza2p_T0phxrbJXwFfLYmR4V_dbH-lPb0fOPZr49rSo8qkxX9iBwlAlESbTiWdp_eC5ffT64EtEcCYNyD1irar2YhFflp8/s1600/photo+5%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Neipoort is a producer in the Douro region of Portugal run by Dirk Neipoort and has been family-owned since 1842. The Douro region of Portugal is known for its schist "soil", a metamorphic rock known to “split” and flake because of its mineral consistency- this includes quartz and graphite, two things that you can taste in the wine. The Douro is mainly known for its Port-making abilities but because of economic tax breaks in the early 1900’s, table wine began to make much more sense. The Douro is also known for its tough terroir and high temperatures which make winemaking here extremely difficult and its resulting wine that much more appreciated.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The Vertente is a blend of Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (aka Tempranillo), Touriga Franca, Tinta Amarela. All of these grapes are red grapes that are used in making Port. The grapes come from 20-year old vines, are then fermented in stainless steel tanks, and aged in French oak for 18 months. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">So we deduced a somewhat higher alcohol content of 13%, aging in oak, a rocky terroir, and a young age but yet older than two years (2007) all without knowing what we were drinking. The only reason why I say you should maybe give your blind date a second chance is because I thought this was a French Syrah and Grenache blend. Portuguese? Really? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">So I guess what I’m saying is that it’s okay to make some physical judgments but keep an open mind until your wine or date really let you know they’re one-note and don't last that long. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-14239976718220387792011-10-10T17:52:00.003-05:002011-10-10T19:32:21.364-05:00Terroir Tastings<style>
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">If you read my lovely <a href="http://racheleatsinaustin.blogspot.com/p/about.html">About Me</a> section, you’d learn that I worked at a <a href="http://alicesteacup.com/">tea house</a> before I came out to Austin. One love I had working at a tea shop was well, tea. It was my first experience with the art of the beverage. It was my first experience in understanding that location, climate, and topography can affect the taste of your drink (India or Sri Lanka, China or Japan?) or that the production processes affect its weight and color (black, green, or white tea, anyone?).</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">It was my first time understanding that depending on where that tea came from and how it was processed, cooked, stored, or added to (genmaicha or lapsang souchong?) could affect the experience that you have in your cute, little vintage teacup.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">Leaving New York and conquering every tea on the Alice’s Tea Cup tea list, I was ready for the next thing. I didn’t realize it at the time but landing my job at Fino led me to the next great step: wine. Conquering wine has been one daunting task. It went right over my head. Was Arbois a vineyard, appellation, or an importer? Or none of the above? How does one ever learn the weather of every European country in every year since 1960 and what does that even mean for a grape? Those pencil shavings and forest floor aromas? Nope, don’t smell it. Dried apricot and gasoline flavor? Nope, tastes like alcohol. Windows on the World? No, it’s all French names. Wine Bible? Nope, it’s still French.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">I bring my troubles up to my lovely wine director and was recommended Alice’s Feiring’s <i>The Battle For Wine and Love</i>. With this book, my mind was officially blown and not with overly academic articles but with passionate memoirs about the state of the wine world. It was a realization that the wine world was not as big of a beast as I was making it out to be. My biggest epiphany of all was that not all wine is worth knowing about.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">Even this prestigious world of wine can be tainted with over-processing and questionable farming practices. I narrowed down my scope and wanted to bring it back to the idea that where your wine is from, its climate and topography, storing and processing has a direct effect on what ends up in your wine glass.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Terroir</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- <i>“This French word means the total impact of any given site-soil, slope, orientation to the sun, and elevation, plus every nuance of climate including rainfall, wind velocity, frequency of fog, cumulative hours of sunshine, average high temperature, average low temperature, and so forth. There is no single word in English that means quite the same thing.”- Wine Bible</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">Along with terroir, the processes of fermentation, storing, filtering, and etc. all affect what ends up in your wine glass. If all that means so much, I want a pure and untainted connection to the place where my drink is from or else wine is nothing but grape juice. </span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">From this comes a new appreciation for the <a href="http://www.finoaustin.com/fino/wine.pdf">Fino wine list</a> and its dedication to small producers, organic practices, and a true representation of Old World terroir. Why not begin my wine conquering here? It’s also easy when you get paid to taste them on Wednesdays:</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">This Wednesday starts with D. Ventura. This producer is located in the Ribeira Sacra region in Galicia in Northwest Spain. Run by Ramon Losada and his family, two of the three vineyards lay on the banks of the Sil River. These happen to be the two that we carry at Fino- the ’09 Vina Caneiro and the ’09 Pena do Lobo. The Caneiro is strictly slate, the Pena do Lobo is a mix of slate and granite. Both have steep terraces that run along the bank of the river which cool the vines from this specific soil. It’s not called the “Sacred Shores” for nothing.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">These regions of Spain only carry the Mencia grape. This varietal only coming into the limelight quite recently known for its currant red and pomegranate flavors. It’s very Pinot Noir-esque but the more exotic and lesser known version. The producers at D. Ventura take an organic approach to their 80+ year vines by fermenting with only indigenous yeast and storing in stainless steel barrels allowing very little of its <i>terroir</i> to be tampered with.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">The ’09 Vina Caneiro is a little meatier, gamier with dark fruit and tannins. The ’09 Pena do Lobo holds a more musty quality but also more delicate with fresher fruit tastes of raspberry and strawberry. </span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">See, it’s not so bad and scary after all. Conquering the huge world of wine might just be starting small.</span></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-30213278484866499532011-09-30T14:09:00.001-05:002011-09-30T14:32:27.000-05:00Champagne Vocab<style>
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">In preparation for Fino's upcoming <a href="http://www.astiaustin.com/fino/new/">Champagne and tapas dinner</a>, I thought I would read up on the region and its wines. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">I took a class in college on Classic Buddhist Texts and had this fantastic professor who taught me how to write, edit, and that the way to learn about something in its entirety was to learn its language. The first step to learning Buddhism was learning the language. I remember studying pages of Sanskrit in my college dorm room and you know what? My professor, who was fluent in fourteen languages, was more than right. Why can't the same be applied to wine? First step is to learn the language so thank you Professor Roccosalvo for teaching me the art of a vocabulary list. Oh and thanks to Jancis Robinson and Karen MacNeill.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Champagne Vocabulary List</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Lees</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- spent yeasts.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Sur lie</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- on the lees, when wine rests with its spent yeasts.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Assemblage</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- making a house’s nonvintage wine by blending dozens of still wines from different years.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Liqueur de tirage</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- combination of sugar and wine, then blended with yeasts to spur a second fermentation within a bottle.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Veuve</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- widow (like "veuve cliquot", ahhhhhh).<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Pupitres</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> (desk)- A-frames where Champagne bottles are inserted for the purpose of riddling.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Riddling</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> (rémuage)- when bottles in an a-frame are turned slightly and upended a fraction<b>.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Gyropalettes</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- Machines that riddle.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Dégorgement</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- Each upside-down bottle is placed in a brine solution that freezes the neck of the bottle. Bottle is then turned upright and cap removed and the frozen yeasts shoot out.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Liqueur d’expédition</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- combination of reserve wine and sugar added to champagne to fill remainder of bottle after yeasts are out.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Dosage</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- sweetness level which determines how dry and sweet the wine will be.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Cuvée</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- blend of dry base wines.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Clos</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- wine brand, vintner, or estate.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Blanc de Blancs</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- champagne made from 100% Chardonnay, the best coming from Côte de Blancs, can be nonvintage or vintage.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Blanc de Noirs</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> (whites from reds)- pink-tinged golden Champagne made entirely from red grapes, very rare<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Demi-sec</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- half-dry.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Grower champagnes</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">- from family firms or small growers, not large houses, smaller number of base wines, more likely to reflect terroir. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-27740460636971840432011-09-28T23:55:00.001-05:002011-09-28T23:55:47.474-05:00Amaro Amore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>One year ago, I had just been in Austin for one (mild) summer. I was just starting to train as a server at Fino and I think it may have been when I heard the word "Averna" for the first time. I was also fresh off of a long-term relationship, wondering why the hell I had packed my car and drove cross-country, and trying to figure out what my life plan was going to be if it didn't involve a guitar.<br />
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One year later, I'm still serving at Fino, I'm still single, still kind of wondering why the hell I packed my car and drove cross-country, and well, still trying to figure out the life plan. One thing I do know is that I've had my fair share of Averna- a long way from first hearing the word "amaro." Well, actually, I've also fallen in love... with my amaro amore.<br />
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Fino recently did a bitter bartender's evening hosting Bobby Heugel from <a href="http://anvilhouston.com/index.php">Anvil Bar and Refuge</a> in Houston, Texas. If you have been reading my blog, you may have seen me back in <a href="http://racheleatsinaustin.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-one-drinks.html">Houston</a> in a winged hat with a sprained ankle and a massive hangover. From what I can recall, our beloved bartender from Fino helped takeover Anvil and now it was Bobby's turn to pay us back and pay us a visit.<br />
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Our amaro-based menu, thank you:<br />
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I had the pleasure of working the event. In addition to getting my ass kicked that night, it was an honor to prep and be a part of it. Amaro affairs are always bittersweet.<br />
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The affair continued at Second Bar and Kitchen.<br />
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<i>London's Culling</i>:<br />
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<li>Carpano Antica</li>
<li>Lemon</li>
<li>Orgeat</li>
<li>Sea Salt</li>
</ul><br />
Later that week... at The Esquire Tavern, San Antonio:<br />
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Now this bar has been around since 1933 and opened to celebrate the end of Prohibition. It closed for a little while and just opened back up again in 2011 with a vengeance as well as a new and progressive direction.<br />
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<i>Smokey Tiny Dancer: </i><br />
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<li>Tequila</li>
<li>Lime </li>
<li>Honey syrup</li>
<li>Framboise</li>
<li>Egg white</li>
</ul><br />
<i>Ender's Game:</i><br />
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<li>Grapefruit</li>
<li>Lemon</li>
<li>Honey syrup</li>
<li>Carbonated Carpano Antica</li>
</ul><br />
<i>Zhara Moon: </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxyA7BKHtTpV4ITUlCT_I6BFBuUuViTtxCFfYoKY9XegHWDh1mNEqd_vrIcOOEVyTgUtgENodQ1hifXTeQBZkeiXk98wYWZ2131OpHwkAAZuHJbGRaE-OD9PqAyg9xnTchy3l3g3NnPQ/s1600/photo+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxyA7BKHtTpV4ITUlCT_I6BFBuUuViTtxCFfYoKY9XegHWDh1mNEqd_vrIcOOEVyTgUtgENodQ1hifXTeQBZkeiXk98wYWZ2131OpHwkAAZuHJbGRaE-OD9PqAyg9xnTchy3l3g3NnPQ/s320/photo+4.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><ul><li> Gin</li>
<li>Allspice</li>
<li>Cucumber</li>
<li>Lemon</li>
<li>Saffron</li>
</ul><br />
Oh wait. Okay, sorry, Amaro, but gin, rye whiskey, and mezcal are my other three spirit loves. <br />
<br />
But hey, I'm single. Who said I couldn't sleep around in a different zip code? No exclusivity established and I'm really not ready to settle down or sober up. <br />
<br />
Maybe I'm in the right place of my life more than I realize. <br />
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything should be in a constant wheel of reinvention. I am the master of changing my mind and reveling in new phases or obsessions of my life. I like to think of this as a constant struggle to be the best version of yourself or it could very well be an unhealthy obsession with Madonna from when I was 14. What I’m getting at here is that it’s time to revamp. </span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The point of this blog for the past year was to have a conversation about where exactly I fit in the world of food. I meant to have that conversation more with myself than anyone else. I still haven’t found one specific answer to that question but I feel stable and comfortable enough to move onto the next phase and start expanding that conversation to the public or well, you.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am excited about new plans to write and reach out. I am excited about the food I haven’t eaten yet and the cocktails I haven’t had. I’m excited about the stories that I have yet to share and the ones yet to be lived but before I do that, there’s always a makeover to be to done. So this blog will be searching for a new shade of lipstick so just bear with me until I find it. When I do, this blog just might be a key to the bigger picture. I’d like to keep it new and exciting than let it fall to the wayside. </span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m thankful for coffees with established Austin writers and bloggers, new friends with innovative ideas and unwavering motivation, everyone who keeps expanding my knowledge and pushing me to the next level, and those who allow me to teach which in turn allows me to learn.</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">So until then, I am under construction so forgive my mandatory transitional phase.</span></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-21359644049209531522011-08-22T15:03:00.002-05:002011-09-07T15:21:09.285-05:00food is..<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">cheering on your fino restaurant family at slow food austin's quizbowl (even though they're not doing so hot)</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">but butchering a pig for auction makes all things better...</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">especially when you eat it in a sandwich with amazing pickles @ the noble pig</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">realizing your true passion lies in a sotol cocktail rather than an improv class</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">remembering simplicity in cooking a summery shrimp salad</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-84568425733921069862011-08-16T14:24:00.001-05:002011-09-14T13:04:17.628-05:00candlelight cupcakes.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A big thank you to Martha Stewart for providing me with a romantic evening in:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<h2>Ingredients</h2><ul class="group"><li><h3>For the Cupcakes</h3><div class="item-list"><ul class="content-multigroup-group-ingredient"><li class="ingredient first"> 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1/2 cup milk</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 3/4 cup sugar</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 2 large eggs</li>
<li class="ingredient last"> Sprinkles, for decorating</li>
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<li><h3>For the Frosting</h3><div class="item-list"><ul class="content-multigroup-group-ingredient"><li class="ingredient first"> 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 3 cups confectioners' sugar</li>
<li class="ingredient"> 1/4 cup milk</li>
<li class="ingredient last"> 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract </li>
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</ul><div class="recipe-section instructions"><h2>Directions</h2><div class="item-list"><ol class="content-multigroup-group-steps"><li class="step first"> Preheat oven to 350 degrees; line the cups of a standard (12-cup) muffin tin with paper or foil liners. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a liquid-measuring cup, mix milk and vanilla; set aside.<br />
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<li class="step"> In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer on low speed, add half of dry ingredients, followed by milk-vanilla mixture, then remaining dry ingredients. Do not overmix.<br />
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<li class="step"> Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups (a 2-ounce or 1/4-cup ice-cream scoop is good for this).<br />
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<li class="step"> Place tin on a rimmed baking sheet; bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool cupcakes 5 minutes in tin, then remove and cool completely on a rack before frosting.<br />
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<li class="step"> Prepare frosting: In a medium bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter, confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth. Mix in up to 1/2 cup more sugar or a few more teaspoons of milk as necessary to achieve a spreadable consistency. Makes enough for 12 cupcakes.<br />
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<li class="step last"> Frost cupcakes; decorate with sprinkles before frosting dries to ensure that they stick. The frosted cupcakes are best eaten within 1 day.<br />
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</ol></div></div>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-57402855574249329012011-08-14T19:13:00.001-05:002011-08-14T19:14:35.416-05:00Food Photography.I have had this recent obsession with food blogs involving gorgeous photography. I, in turn, am jealous. Now I'm desperate for a DSLR. I think it might be an investment I look into soon for the future of this lowly little food blog. Here is the most recent inspiration:<br />
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<a href="http://earlcarter.com.au/#/Images/Food/27">Earl Carter Photography</a><br />
<a href="http://www.happyolks.com/">Happyolks</a><br />
<a href="http://apt2bbakingco.blogspot.com/">Apt. 2B Baking Co.</a><br />
<a href="http://poco-cocoa.com/">poco-cocoa</a><br />
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Thank you to those I know who do what you do and those who I don't who I admire from far away.messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-1640024750012721432011-08-11T00:01:00.000-05:002011-08-11T00:01:27.899-05:00What we've all been missing..Some things I've done that I have not written about include: midnight strawberry pancakes and bacon, a new obsession with pour-over coffee, pork buns and chicken thighs from a trailer, numerous tea sandwiches and pots of Assam, Osmanthus, and Oolong, my second and more successful time at Asia Cafe, another venture to dough with three hardcore New Jerseyans and many, many fast food burgers. I'm realizing I'm not documenting nearly as enough as I want to.<br />
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What I have documented:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">reconnecting with old friends over pisco sours at la condesa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">getting amazing news from your best friend over pizza and kale salad (don't get queasy, jack)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">having a texas experience with your friends from back east</td></tr>
</tbody></table>It's time to make more of a concerted effort to create more food experiences and record them. In whichever way I feel artistically inclined. It's time for more recognition of my everyday food experiences that I take for granted. Time to pull out the camera and take the time to appreciate my relationship with food. I hope you'll join me.<br />
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messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-24295550636629985302011-07-18T22:50:00.001-05:002011-07-18T22:51:39.465-05:00food is...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">to have sausage and corn on the grill with friends</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">what it means to throw a party with jackie..</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">and leave me in charge of the boom boom punch..</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">and her in charge of beer- yes that's the washing machine.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">...and enjoying another night at the office.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>messylittlethingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523852213119752679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559172852663495114.post-17277730501485368242011-07-04T22:48:00.001-05:002011-09-23T12:27:30.219-05:00why one drinks:<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">because you drive to houston, go back an hour on 290 to pick up natasha whose car broke down, and then head back to houston one more time. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">because <a href="http://anvilhouston.com/">anvil bar and refuge</a> hosted six of austin's best bartenders</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAY8yDsXxd8pte17DOq_wkVoLU1_Nf4p-cK9-2WIRontC8pMitsGUmbEZB-dpQ3OxlRxZHXhIBRBhrQZRMgx1Hlg_9ARHSHfkJ8-rhjUW1ne-tOMlH9KIM1r10tauqW5lWAFql8y_j1tM/s1600/photo+3-4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAY8yDsXxd8pte17DOq_wkVoLU1_Nf4p-cK9-2WIRontC8pMitsGUmbEZB-dpQ3OxlRxZHXhIBRBhrQZRMgx1Hlg_9ARHSHfkJ8-rhjUW1ne-tOMlH9KIM1r10tauqW5lWAFql8y_j1tM/s320/photo+3-4.JPG" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">because that's a devil's mustache (mezcal, cynar, and orange bitters)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">because that's a devil's mustache, a "what's up doc?" for the second time, all after a montego matica, olvos de tejas, and campari swizzle. and I bought a new hat.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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