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Afternoon Snacks
Tons of tequila, a periodic table of wine, and buches de noel, all on today's Afternoon Snacks!
Afternoon Snacks
Today's Afternoon Snacks has got a ton of tequila, a periodic table of wine, and one of Christmas's most charming treats!
If you haven’t been up to Cantina Dos Segundos (931 N. 2nd St.) yet this month, you may not be aware that they’ve been unwrapping a new tequila (and a different deal) every night in December through Christmas Eve. You can check out the full schedule here, with tequila flights or different flavors (black currant, ginger nutmeg) of margaritas on sale as the month goes on—this week, take note that tonight they’re doing a fundraiser for Norris Square Neighborhood Project from 6 to 8 p.m., and on Thursday margarita pitchers are half-off. (!)
This article from Decanter (via NYT Diner’s Journal) about the idea of a “periodic table” of wine to simplify and standardize intra-industry discussion made us feel a little bit worse about our general lack of science aptitude, but a whole lot better about our general lack of couth when ordering new-to-us varietals with baffling spellings.
Maybe it’s just that the Bûche de Noël was never part of our own family holiday celebrations (coupled with all of those years of French in school), but we find yule logs about a hundred times harder to resist than cake that’s just shaped like cake. It’s the meringue mushrooms, especially, that get us. So yeah, we’re slightly enamored of the rendition from Metropolitan Bakery. They’re special order only, so you’ll have to call (215-545-6655) if you want one on your table this year. And when you go pick it up, maybe you can also score some of this stuff!
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
