Dining At Home
Gourmet

Déjeuner Chez Grand Puy Lacoste

Usually I dine at the Saint Julien restaurant during en primeur, but since the lecherous chef put us off our canard last year, the B.I. boys elected to spend the...

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Home Alone

With my wife having a long week-end in Paris while I was tied to my desk editing and proof-reading the next issue of The Wine Advocate, I decided to take a...

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Dinner Chez Morgan (For Jeff Leve & Others)

I sometimes view the main forum on eRP as a modern-day “Dallas” played out in cyberspace. Regular readers will be familiar with the “big characters” whose contributions, insights and occasional...

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Dinner at Home with Friends

We began with a Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 1996. More elegant than their profound 1995, it is an exquisite example of 100% Chardonnay champagne that is pure elegance and finesse. It...

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Dinner at Home

Dinner began with a brilliant Chardonnay, the 1999 Marcassin Upper Barn, which I believe is the last vintage this estate made of this wine from a vineyard owned by Jess Jackson....

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Les Vins Chez Bob

It could be the presence of an illustrious guest from Essex or it could be Robert Parker’s altruism. Whatever the reason, we were spoilt by some exceptional wines chez lui...

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Dinner at Home with Three Châteauneuf du Pape Proprietors

To celebrate the first visit to the USA by several Châteauneuf du Pape proprietors, my wife and I pulled out all the stops and prepared a totally American meal. It...

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Dinner at Home With Friends

A dinner my wife and I (mostly me) cooked for some friends included my famous crab cakes, made from the highest quality Maryland jumbo lump backfin crab meat I can...

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Dinner at Home with Friends

My favorite smoked salmon, from Brown Trading Company, is a special Scottish salmon smoked to the specifications of New York's great French chef, Daniel Boulud. The subtlety of its intense...

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