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SNACK TIME: Chinese etiquette, Lab-grown meat, Wine know-how, Lasagna cupcakes, Bake with your iPad, and Snoop Dogg's dip
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SNACK TIME: Chinese etiquette, Lab-grown meat, Wine know-how, Lasagna cupcakes, Bake with your iPad, and Snoop Dogg's dip
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I'm bout to make some fish cupcakes.
Cupcakes were mentioned, so I have to comment. The best cupcake I've ever had in my life was from Philadelphia: a strawberry cupcake from Brown Betty. (If there's a better cupcake to be had in Philadelphia, I need to know about it.) But this... a lasagna cupcake? Even I can't go there. What's next, a fish cupcake? Don't tell me there's such a thing as a fish cupcake... please.
I see what you're saying - that is a mouthful. Also, I think my post was unnecessarily rude. Sorry about that. I will say that as a wine snob myself, I do not understand buying an expensive/nice cab, bordeaux blend, rhone blend, etc. from a current vintage and then popping and pouring it at a BYOB. It is great to try to impress someone, but the wine will be completely closed off. You'll get that it has structure and potential but little else. You would be better off with a cheaper beaujolais or *gasp* name brand stuff like herding cats, or a European wine like rioja, which generally is reserved and therefore has some age on it. Just say no to infanticide!
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Oh, no! Dan - sorry to have misled you, I simply mentioned Coppola based upon name recognition and nothing more, at all. I've done it before, too, this post had nothing to do with the quality or caliber of Coppola's wines. Hope this clears it up.
Sweet cupcakes are kind of played out like cassette tapes and bird tattoos. That being said, I could get down on a lasagna cupcake or an individual meatcake. How about a steak tartare cupcake?
Yes, steak tartare cupcake! Peking duck cupcake! There are endless options, Rascal.
Dan, to be fair, Laurel originally mentioned folks drinking Coppola wines based on the name recognition alone. I took it down for brevity's sake but now that I realize her point is unclear I've added it back in.
Coppola has a range of wine levels just like Mondavi or Beringer. For example, you would have a hard time beating his label Rubicon. I get your point, but if you are going to be a wine snob, it is best to know what you are talking about.
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