This Moroccan restaurant completely rocks. Be prepared to drop some cash here, but it’s worth it for the tasty tagines and the smoky hookah lounge that really feels a lot like an opium [...]
I had a great experience at a restaurant this week, though I won’t say which one exactly because they did something very cool and completely illegal.
The place is billed as a hybrid of a modern Japanese restaurant and a wine bar, a rare combination. So obviously we asked the waitress about a wine list, but [...]
Passover is one of my favorite holidays, not in the least because Jewish tradition requires that you drink 4 glasses of wine with dinner. Imagine four generations of a family sitting around a huge table, recounting (joyously) the story of our freedom from slavery… with a giant collective buzz.
It used to be all Manischewitz all [...]
Introduction
It is sometimes necessary for individuals to make personal sacrifices for the greater good, to put their minds and bodies in the way of danger for the sake of pure altruism. Think of firefighters, soldiers, proctologists, and now… friends and staff of The Second Glass. On the evening of March 9, 2007, nine able-bodied and [...]
So I’m opening up a Bechtheimer Stein Gewurztraminer Spatlese last night, and I’m cooking up some dinner (a little tomato-based sauteed vegetable number)… and not particularly looking for any trouble. But trouble found me. This bottle had a strange dual cork/cap system, with a metal semi-screw cap holding down a glass stopper. I was totally fascinated until the difficult-to-remove [...]
So I’m opening up a Bechtheimer Stein Gewurztraminer Spatlese last night, and I’m cooking up some dinner (a little tomato-based sauteed vegetable number)… and not particularly looking for any trouble. But trouble found me. This bottle had a strange dual cork/cap system, with a metal semi-screw cap holding down a glass stopper. I was totally [...]
Tonight The Second Glass is hosting a most rowdy and drunken event. No, it’s not a rodeo, a mongolian cluster, nor a bake sale. Tonight we run an experiment for the latest article in our series, “In the Name of Science”. I cannot reveal the details just yet, but as a scientist myself I can [...]
When you order a turkey sammich, and the deli man instead gives you a smoked turkey sammich, your first instinct might be to open that thing up and show him the exact difference between what you asked for and what he gave you. And by “show” I obviously mean mashing it all over his face. [...]
Some say the grape is named for the Persian city of Shiraz, an ancient place of flowers, wine, and poetry. They say it was brought to France by returning crusader Guy de Sterimberg, who cultivated his vine cuttings in solitude. But to those who say such things, I say bullocks.
To be sure, the exact [...]
