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  • worst show on cable news network

    my nomination is MSNBC's primary coverage ( any recent primary night) in which Matthews, Obermann, Todd, et al, show all the political analysis of accountants. Instead of focusing on the real issues, like what the DNC should do about the vote in Fla and Michigan and what the superdelegates and the Party show be thinking about, winning the ...
    Posted to Press Box by CRAIG STERN on May 16, 2008

  • Mead-worthy of the discussion

    Nicholas does mead a great service and disservice by this article. Mead is fantastic with food. Check out the mead food blog on the main web site for commercial mead: Honeywine.com. So many wonderful open minded wine lovers took years and decades to understand the beauty of fermented grape juice. The palate by tasting becomes familiar and ...
    Posted to Drink by JuliaHerz on March 2, 2008

  • Society for Creative Anacronism -poor company?!

    Fist of all not all members of the Society for Creative Anacronism (SCA) use mead as currency. Some, including myself perfer not to drink most home made wines and meads, as they are much too sweet. Now and then I meet a mead maker with a very good dry batch, then it is heaven. Also I bristle at the implication that the SCA harms the image of ...
    Posted to Drink by medievalist on March 1, 2008

  • Mead and Food Pairings

    The writer made some interesting points but I was surprised to read his comments on food pairings. My sisters and I own Hill Top Berry Farm and Winery in Virginia. We have made a popular niche for ourselves by making specialty wines which we call ''True to the Fruit'' wines and historical honey meads. I'm the wine/mead maker and have an ...
    Posted to Drink by Kimberly Allen Pugh on February 28, 2008

  • Against the Slant

    Several things jumped out at me in this article: 1. The hackneyed and inevitable swipe at ''bearded D&D players'' and members of the SCA. I am neither, but I know some and they're nice people. And they may also be responsible for keeping mead alive so that pompous foodies and wineys can ''discover'' it. 2. As others have pointed out ...
    Posted to Drink by SpectatorAtTheScene on February 28, 2008

  • Mead IS making a comeback - here's why

    Not that there's anything wrong with D&D, or the SCA, but I've found that there is a much wider palate for mead than people think. Most people simply have never heard of it, or tried it. Once they are introduced, many people become interested, even excited about it. I've brought our mead to many wine tastings, and have received a very good ...
    Posted to Drink by bdahlhofer on February 28, 2008

  • Mead is for drinking ... oneself into a stupor

    Listen, foodies. Mead is not, and can not be made to go with any meal. It's not for chicken or fish or beef or pork or mutton or even the wildest gamiest piece of animal or sides of vegetables nor sweets you can throw on the dinner table. Mead has one purpose, and one purpose only. It is for getting totally, obliteratively shit-faced. It is a brew ...
    Posted to Drink by lastangelman on February 28, 2008

  • Mead Article comments

    I wonder if the author of the mead article has tried and of the Meadovina meads. I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is no, although that's not a critique of the author, but a comment on the unfortunate scarcity of Meadovina. I was unable to even find the apiary's meads in Denver in a rather large store even though Niwot (Meadovina's home) is ...
    Posted to Drink by aracauna on February 27, 2008