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Now is the time to nominate your favorite food or drink blog for the 2008 Food Blog Awards. All the details can be found on our main site.

Thank you so much for making our site a part of your regular routine.  Without you, we wouldn’t be here.  We will be taking a short break to celebrate the holidays with our family and friends, and will resume regular postings on Monday, January 5th (the official kick-off of the annual Food Blog Awards!).
Happy holidays!

With the holiday season in full swing, entertaining is getting quickly under way.  When it comes to wine bottle purchases though, you don’t need to break the bank.  Can you still find a good bottle of wine for under $20?  Absolutely, says Stephen Phillips, host of Fine Living Network’s Great Cocktails.  Here are his suggestions:
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At long last, it’s that time of year again, time to recognize your favorite food and drink blogs with the annual Food Blog Awards.  This year, in the interest of the upcoming holidays, we’ve moved our schedule up a bit, so it will not get underway until after the holidays. 
On Monday, January 5th, we will put […]

We can rationalize anything.  Or it certainly seems that way sometimes, doesn’t it?  Dark chocolate is good for us for its antioxidant properties, and there are proven health benefits to drinking wine.  All things in moderation, of course.  The American Heart Association’s research says that there are health benefits from “moderate wine consumption,” which is […]

With the newest season of Top Chef back on BravoTV, premiering last week, cookbook author Padma Lakshmi is front and center.  In her newest cookbook, Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet, Padma shares what she calls her “sexiest cocktail.”  Given my own admitted penchant for “girly drinks,” this just might make our next get-together.  Who says champagne […]

Looking for a special libation for the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday? Then you might want to consider the newest offering of X-Rated Fusion Liqueur. It combines French vodka and blood oranges from Provence, along with mango and passion fruit juice from Brazil.
Looking for the perfect cocktail for Valentine’s Day? Try this one:
Tickled […]

Usually when people give a bottle of wine as a gift, it’s in one of those pricier velvet-style gift bags that get lost before it can get reused, or those metallic ones.  The folks at Random House are offering a new, unique alternative and, best of all, if won’t break the bank.
These Wine Lovers Gift […]

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, people will be uncorking bottles of wine the world over.  After all, when you think romance, wine is never far behind.  In her book, The Simple & Savvy Wine Guide, author Leslie Sbrocco suggests “a deep red wine such as a sparkling Shiraz” as the perfect drink to celebrate the […]

Apparently I don’t get out much.  Until recently, I didn’t know that some restaurants charge as much as $250 per bottle for their corkage fee.  Excuse me, but that is insane.  As Lettie Teague in Food and Wine magazine asked recently, “What could you get for $250 that you couldn’t for, say, $25?”
The average cost […]