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Recently, the Wall St. Journal’s wine column discussed what to do when a less-experienced wine enthusiast asks your (more-experienced) opinion in picking a wine from a restaurant wine list. The column discussed the dilemma of not knowing their price range, and not wanting to ask and embarrass them. Our solution is quite simple: We narrow it down to red or white, then simply suggest two wines, one inexpensive and another higher-priced bottle. We hand them the wine list so they can read the descriptions (and also “privately” see the prices). The decision is thus theirs, and we all get to experience a fine wine.
A Meal Without Wine is our blog about food, cooking, wine, and many things related to the enjoyment of life. “A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What's This All About?
If you’ve visited this site before, you might notice some changes. We’ve re-focused on cooking as creativity; interesting meals; wine pairings. In short, more food, still some wine, but seldom wine reviews.
By the way, you won’t find a comments section here. We long ago grew tired of sniping, comment spam, and uninformed opinions. Read us if you enjoy what we have to say. If you have a polite question or comment, please feel free to contact us through the Who Are We section below.
By the way, you won’t find a comments section here. We long ago grew tired of sniping, comment spam, and uninformed opinions. Read us if you enjoy what we have to say. If you have a polite question or comment, please feel free to contact us through the Who Are We section below.
It's Wine Time (Somewhere)
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Who Are We?
Ken Hulick has been a writer, editor, photographer, and chef for decades. His foodie background includes being a private chef, working at a cheesemonger and Italian deli, and writing food and wine articles. He is writing a food/cooking/creativity book (not a cookbook) tentatively called The Cooking School of Life – you might occasionally see excerpts here.
He was also the creative director and a writer/photographer for California Grower magazine (an agricultural trade publication). His professional career has been primarily as a marketing and branding consultant to a variety of clients in several different industries, as well as a lot of freelance magazine writing and photography.
Francesca Campbell Hulick is an oil painter and photographer. She prepares great meals when Ken lets her in the kitchen.
He was also the creative director and a writer/photographer for California Grower magazine (an agricultural trade publication). His professional career has been primarily as a marketing and branding consultant to a variety of clients in several different industries, as well as a lot of freelance magazine writing and photography.
Francesca Campbell Hulick is an oil painter and photographer. She prepares great meals when Ken lets her in the kitchen.
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Other Wine & Food Blogs We Enjoy
Wine & Food Links
- THE COOKING SCHOOL OF LIFE: Private cooking lessons and private chef services.
- APPELLATION AMERICA: North America winery information.
- TURLEY: Great, big Zinfandels and other wines.
- RIDGE VINEYARDS: Our favorite California reds, especially Zinfandel.
- CAMBRIA: Burgundian reds and whites, especially Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
- PAHLMEYER: California reds and whites for the true enthusiast.
- CORKSAVVY.COM: Wine articles, news, and free applications.
- THE WINE HUB: Wine and wine-tourism information.
- WINE DIRECTORY: Internet resources.
- WINE TRAVEL GUIDES: Excellent Europe wine travel resources.
Disclosure:
We write this blog for fun. We offer our honest opinions and commentary about the topics we choose to discuss.
Although the world runs on “grease,” none seems to flow our direction – no free wines, no free winery tours. Should we ever accept any freebies, and subsequently write about that wine, winery, company, or destination, we will disclose that information in our review. Our review will still carry our honest opinion – positive, negative, or neutral.
Secondly, we are not part of any affiliate marketing program. We get no compensation from referrals if we write positively about a wine, winery, destination, product, or service. We get no revenue from any link to any site we refer to anywhere in our writing.
Lastly, we have no control over ads that Google posts on our site. We don’t even know the content of those ads, as they change frequently and at random. To be honest, we don’t even look at what’s being advertised.
Although the world runs on “grease,” none seems to flow our direction – no free wines, no free winery tours. Should we ever accept any freebies, and subsequently write about that wine, winery, company, or destination, we will disclose that information in our review. Our review will still carry our honest opinion – positive, negative, or neutral.
Secondly, we are not part of any affiliate marketing program. We get no compensation from referrals if we write positively about a wine, winery, destination, product, or service. We get no revenue from any link to any site we refer to anywhere in our writing.
Lastly, we have no control over ads that Google posts on our site. We don’t even know the content of those ads, as they change frequently and at random. To be honest, we don’t even look at what’s being advertised.