Tag: food
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Three Little Pigs Charcuterie: build the house with the best apéro hour…
Your home is lovely. It’s filled with your stuff–and more importantly than that–it’s filled with your memories. You have a sofa. You have a few books. Maybe a painting or a fruit basket. You have meals eaten with people you cherish. The spot on the carpet from where your best friend spilled Merlot; perhaps you…
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Rune x Daylily Estates: everything is sunlight…
“Wine is sunlight held together by water.” Solid quote. Thanks, Galileo. It’s poetic yet scientific, reverent and kind of cheeky at the same time, but did you know that he dropped even more knowledge in the next sentence? It might not fit on a cross stitch but check it: “The light of a sun, with…
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First Love, Then Wheat: the lingering taste of loss…
I spent my summer saying goodbye to things that I had previously believed held permanent placements in my life. First love, then wheat. Loss is a terrifying thing because, more often than not, we don’t see it coming. One night, you’re falling asleep soundly after receiving a ‘Sweet Dreams’ text from the person you trust…
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The Pea Tasting Dinner at Junk Ditch: peas got the princess treatment…
There’s a fairytale about a princess and a pea. You’ve probably heard it before. If you haven’t, the gist is essentially that a princess is faced with a test: to sleep on a thousand towering mattresses underneath which has been placed one, tiny pea. If she’s a real princess, her disposition will be so delicate…
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Draft TaproomxDom’s Mob Wife Dinner: it’s a hit…
A little black dress can be many things. Sometimes it’s a weapon–wielded like a machine gun. Whether it’s to boost the confidence of the one wearing it or as artillery when taking out a hit on someone who broke your heart: the little black dress delivers. It can cut like a knife. It can sting…
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Bistro Nota & Scarpetta Wine Dinner: either you already know that there are remarkable things happening in the culinary scene in Fort Wayne or you’re wrong…
Three chefs. Five courses. Five wine pairings. One unforgettable evening. If you haven’t attended a wine dinner at Bistro Nota yet, then I guess I’m sorry that your life is so sad and empty. The food is always faultless, the atmosphere cozy, and the pours generous. Honestly, I live for wine dinners at Bistro Nota–because…
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Junk Ditch French Pairing Dinner: oh là là!
I love French food. It’s special, bordering on magical. There’s something astonishing about simple ingredients transfigured to become greater than the sum of their parts through skillful technique. An ordinary chicken becomes extraordinary, elegant even, when prepared with French style. When it comes to la cuisine française, an emphasis is always placed on quality ingredients,…
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Dana’s: French inspired, Fort Wayne accessible…
It was a Friday afternoon in Fort Wayne and I knew exactly what to order. Volchy scooped me up at my doorstep and ushered me downtown. We found parking faster than usual: because sometimes things just work out. With no reservation, we showed up at Dana’s mere minutes after opening. Still–it was far from a…
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Venturi Pizza: pizza is the glue that temporarily holds a broken heart together…
Some people love Valentine’s Day. They yearn all year long for the annual return of February 14th–bringing with it a storm of cheap chocolates and polyester rose petals. But when the corporate-constructed pink and red haze sets in on my city, something inside me screams to get out of dodge. So, I listen to that…
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Johnny OX: a sacred journey through the prowess and expression of a culinary virtuoso…
I’ve written a lot about pizza. Scan through previous blogs and you’ll find that I’ve penned that pizza is “more reliable than any lover.” To quote myself, “There’s no amount of money I wouldn’t spend, no distance I wouldn’t travel, no obstacle I wouldn’t overcome for the sake of pizza.” I’ve made questionable choices in…
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