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Eats & Drinks

Join my Healthy circle and let’s support one another’s fitness goals

07.31.2011

I’m getting in shape and I’d love your support, and I’d love to support you as well. If that sounds interesting, read on to find out how. As any of you who have seen more than just my tightly-cropped avatar already know, I need to get serious about my health and fitness. I’ve been overweight [...]

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Domestic translations

04.26.2010

Around our house if we say, “Shall we freeze the rest of that?” what we usually mean is, “Huh. That wasn’t very good, but there’s nothing so notably bad about it that we can just throw it away, so let’s put it in the freezer, and barring a global economic collapse or food shortage, throw [...]

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Yelp proved its value yesterday. Mostly.

04.11.2010

I like Yelp, the site that crowdsources people’s opinions and gives ratings on restaurants, stores and service businesses. I also have the Yelp application on my iPhone. I don’t use either one of them much at home, because I pretty much know which restaurants I like and where they are. But I’m in Seattle this [...]

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Pink wine on the deck with grilled tuna FTW

04.03.2010

Posted via email from David B. Thomas

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Trader Joe’s 2009 Vintage Ale

02.20.2010

Everything I hate in a beer. Thick, treacly. Might be good with a dry, bitter biscuit. Might not.

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Heartland Stickleback 2007 Australian blend

02.20.2010

A blend of Shiraz, cab, Dolcetto, Grenache and Awesome. Around ten bucks at Chapel Hill Wine Company. Really, really nice with pizza and excess. Plus, it’s called Heartland Stickleback. Can this Stickleback get more fans than the pickle that has more fans than Nickelback?

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Hawkes Bay 2007 Pinot Noir

02.20.2010

Nice New Zealand Pinot Noir, tasted more expensive than the 12 clams it cost on sale. We drank it on a Saturday after more than a week of cheap cabs and it was well appreciated. Tasted like a big indulgence.

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Dinner at Saint Jacques

11.09.2008

The Mrs. and I went to Saint Jacques in Raleigh last night for a pre-birthday (mine) dinner with our friends Memsy and Gill. I’ve been there several times for lunch with my dad and have been trying to get there for dinner for at least a year. It’s one of the most elegant, calm and [...]

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It’s All About the Mash

12.26.2003

When I bought my house five years ago I was overcome with a wave of domesticity that manifested itself in the purchase of design magazines and painting the rooms a variety of colors with silly names (“Spring Sprout” and “Madder Carmine”), most of which I do not regret. One issue of House & Garden had [...]

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