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32nd Wedding Anniversary at Charleston Restaurant, Baltimore

To celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to our favorite spot for great dining in Baltimore, Chef Cindy Wolf's Charleston restaurant. Once again, when flavor counts,...

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Restaurants
Dinner with Friends at Petit Louis

Another delightful meal at the best bistro in Baltimore (Charm City's only bistro). A meal consisting of their perfect Eggplant Napoleon with goat cheese, olives, tapenade, and very intense and...

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Restaurants
Dinner with Friends at Petit Louis

I love the 1995 Beaucastel Roussanne Vieilles Vignes. I purchased a case when it was first released, and have drunk six bottles with great pleasure. However, I had a maderized bottle...

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Restaurants
My Birthday Dinner with Friends from France

I was born in 1947 and have a handful of bottles from that vintage left in my cellar, but I decided to go with youth. A magnum of 1990 Taittinger Comtes...

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Dining At Home
30th Anniversary of the 1971 Barolo/Barbaresco's

What can you say about the amazing cooking of Daniel Boulud? From the opening dish of foie gras and figs, to an amazing Boulud gazpacho of toro of tuna with heirloom tomatoes,...

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Events
1998 Châteauneuf du Pape Extravaganza, Four Seasons, New York

This was the second tasting of these wines, because the first, held several months earlier, was so extraordinary. I wrote this tasting up, for the most part, in Issue 138 of The Wine...

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Events
Another Dumpling Extravaganza at Mark's Duck House

It seems like, when I am in the United States, I need to go here at least once every three or four weeks. As for food, it is always the...

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Restaurants
A Charity Dinner at Restaurant Daniel, NY

The menu at this charity dinner included sardines with oven-baked onions in olive oil, pine nuts, and anchovy juice, sea scallops in a corn clam chowder with root vegetables and...

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Events
My Wife's Birthday Dinner

I  believe in the late Richard Olney's advice that great wines require simple food. The meal, prepared at home, included simple soft shell crabs meunière, followed by aged strip steak...

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Dining At Home
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