Putnam Weekley
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Witness: "O." stands for Lemasson's "olivier." If someone offers Lemasson's wine to me, I will say "yes."
2008 Dominique Mugneret Bourgogne is in my glass now (available at my place of work in Ann Arbor, Everyday Wines) this after a satisfying night at the drawing board. No food, although earlier I combined "taco beef" from Honeybee with various spices and heat. So I'm back to 'over-fed.' The wine is nice. Really nice. I don't encounter much red Burgundy these days, let alone one with this kind of verve. I don't believe I can criticize it. The acidity is prominent. There is a pungent smoked rock and mushroom thing happening, cascaded over with liqueur-ishness. It's a fresh treat and I'd like to know it in a year or five.
There are several pop-up restaurants now in Detroit and in Ann Arbor: Selma Cafe, Wednesday Lunches at Pot and Box, Breakfast Club, and Neighborhood Noodle. The latter features $5 parcels, pictured above on a blanket, in Clark Park, last Monday.
A "100 year-old egg" was my first foray into preserved eggs, or at least since a boiled and brined egg in a Madison Heights bar in 1991. This was stronger tasting. I wonder - how did humans discover that eggs, blackened with sour bacteria and age, could be good to eat, let alone tasty?
So I've been grappling with the (strictly pop) theory behind this question, over on my propaganda site. What do I need to know?
Compared to Neighborhood Noodle, the Wednesday Lunches at Pot and Box are more ambitiously schemed, and mid-day. There is a series of only ten lunches, with a different spice every week. The spice of the week featured is the sole spice in all of several courses, including a cookie at the end. And available for browsing, from the chef's library, is a collection of reading material on the topical spice.
Above is a picture of mustard week's eggplant vegetarian course (with - iirc - 2008 espigouette vacqueyras ... fat, oily, inky, brilliant).
Below is the coriander week's kale and potato taco vegetarian course (with 2007 sant antimo colorino/sangiovese from montalcino ... thumbs up). The coriander cookies were my favorite of all the cookies, so far at least. This week is clove, so we'll see.
And below that is last week's cinnamon meat course was hot smoked salmon, cured in cinnamon and finished with cinnamon sauce (with 2006 cappellano dolcetto gabutti ... no words).
Meanwhile ...
Days earlier, in Farnsworth Garden, that lazy old sun was coming up like a big bald head, poking up over Supino's 2nd anniversary party. (Incidentally, this party was followed the next week by the 1st Leopold's anniversary party, for which I was allowed to deliver the event's case of wine on my bike. At that moment, surveying the idealism and energy about, I decided I would have my shop's third anniversary in 2014.)
Dave insists on catering his own anniversary, albeit while obtaining decisive contributions from his mom and aunts. The food is pretty amazing: grilled pizza doughs filled with fresh tomatoes and basil and bean salad, and milk-braised pork shoulder for the carnivores.
Wine for the Supino anniversary was provided by the all-new Motor City Wine which opened recently downtown. Now Detroit has two wine stores. The new one is my favorite. Somewhere in this bucket is a bottle of Cazin's 2008 Cour-Cheverny Renaissance. For a change, I looked, and everyone's eyes were lit up in the late summer light. Brown eyes were golden and radiant. Blue eyes were opalescent, like deep wells with luminescent pools of wisdom at the bottoms.
Look. Babies are coming. This one pictured above will have impeccable taste in French wine. I know the parents.
So will this one. And I just met the folks.
So, report finished, just let me scrawl on the chalk board at Slows Bar BQ. I'm trying to tell the story of 'which tap has blown," and 'what it has been replaced with.' My bottle of Mugneret is at the end. There is a shingle popping up on my roof, and vinyl to be refiled. (no german pressings, just some japanese here and there.)
What are you up to? When will you come for a visit? I can recommend several places to stay, most of which are cheaper than accommodations in NYC or even San Francisco. Do you enjoy grafitti? Tacos? Coney dogs? Shoot, we even have dry Lambrusco here now: Lini 910 rose, which I live.
2008 Dominique Mugneret Bourgogne is in my glass now (available at my place of work in Ann Arbor, Everyday Wines) this after a satisfying night at the drawing board. No food, although earlier I combined "taco beef" from Honeybee with various spices and heat. So I'm back to 'over-fed.' The wine is nice. Really nice. I don't encounter much red Burgundy these days, let alone one with this kind of verve. I don't believe I can criticize it. The acidity is prominent. There is a pungent smoked rock and mushroom thing happening, cascaded over with liqueur-ishness. It's a fresh treat and I'd like to know it in a year or five.
So I've been grappling with the (strictly pop) theory behind this question, over on my propaganda site. What do I need to know?
Above is a picture of mustard week's eggplant vegetarian course (with - iirc - 2008 espigouette vacqueyras ... fat, oily, inky, brilliant).
Below is the coriander week's kale and potato taco vegetarian course (with 2007 sant antimo colorino/sangiovese from montalcino ... thumbs up). The coriander cookies were my favorite of all the cookies, so far at least. This week is clove, so we'll see.
What are you up to? When will you come for a visit? I can recommend several places to stay, most of which are cheaper than accommodations in NYC or even San Francisco. Do you enjoy grafitti? Tacos? Coney dogs? Shoot, we even have dry Lambrusco here now: Lini 910 rose, which I live.