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Soft Shell Crab Pairing Challenge – The Vote

I love food’s that bring out my inner gastronomical caveman! There’s nothing like bone marrow, calamari tentacles, or elk chops to help get him beating my chest in delight. Soft shell crabs are another one of those foods. You’re actually eating the whole dang crab, shell and all. There’s a crunchiness and primitiveness to it that makes me want to drag a club and walk around in a loincloth. Thus, I was…

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Beer Versus Wine – The Soft Shell Crab Pairing

Congratulations to August’s Beer Versus Wine Challenge winner – The Wandering Sheppard!  Part of the honor includes coming up with September’s challenge.  Participants have until next Tuesday, September 9 to turn in their suggestion before we take it to a vote.  Winner gets to present October’s challenge.  For more on the rules, click here. “You want me to do what?” I asked the fisherman behind the counter. When I decided to choose Soft…

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Winner Winner Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Dinner + Recipe

Truly the most fun we’ve had with the Beer Versus Wine Challenge yet!  Just check out the vote post.  Suggestions continued pumping in even after nominations were closed.  Or look at the Facebook comments from the vote post announcement: I’m glad everyone had fun with this challenge and that we were all able to relive childhood memories by dumping alcohol on ice cream.  How woulda thunk beer floats were so popular? Nominees…

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Vanilla Ice Cream Pairing Challenge – The Vote

Mad props (yeah, I just used that phrase peeps) go out to KC Hop Talk for thinking outside of the box in August’s Beer Versus Wine Challenge!  Each challenge to date has been a main dish on the savory side of the spectrum – shrimp and grits, battered fish, enchiladas.  But KC said enough!  Kansas City BBQ is just too easy!  How about something sweet, something cold, something summery?  How about some…

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Beer Versus Wine – The Perfect Vanilla Ice Cream Pairing

Congratulations to July’s Beer Versus Wine Challenge winner – KC Hop Talk!  Part of the honor includes coming up with August’s challenge.  Participants have until next Tuesday, August 12 to turn in their suggestion before we take it to a vote.  Winner gets to present September’s challenge.  For more on the rules, click here. August is the month of the year when those of us in the Northern Hemisphere understand the weather will…

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Beer or Wine – The Perfect BBQ Pairing?

As a foodie and an admirer of both craft beer and fine wines, I often wonder what the perfect food pairing is.  What follows is a monthly debate on just that.  Once a month I’ll toss out a food for pairing suggestions from my fellow beer geeks and wine nerds.  Some dishes will come with a convention that popular opinion dictates a specific pairing.  Other posts will present a dish that is…

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Europe, Travel

Guest Blogger – Summer Olympics London 2012

I was super pumped when I learned that a good friend of mine went to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.  One, because I have always wanted to go myself and couldn’t wait to hear his stories.  Two, because selfishly I was thinking it would make a great guest blog post.  Evan is, after-all, a phenomenal writer.  Before he left for Richmond to pursue his Masters in Writing and Rhetoric at Virginia Commonwealth University, we…

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Charlotte, Travel

This is Charlotte – Shakespeare at the Green Uptown 2012

Shakespeare on the Green is one of my favorite events of the year in Charlotte.  But of course you, my faithful readers, already know that from last year’s post.  To avoid writing a redundant blog about what a spectacular event this is, I just want to push out a friendly reminder that time is almost running out to catch this year’s performance of The Tempest.  As always, it’s a performance that shouldn’t…

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Charlotte, Travel

This is Charlotte – King’s Drive Artwalk

For the most part, Charlotte does outdoor events right during the warm weather season – free concert series on most Thursday nights, gallery crawls on Friday nights, Pops in the Park on Sundays, NASCAR related festivals, food related festivals, Shakespeare on the Green, White Water Center Events, Saturday night concerts at the Epicenter, art festivals, wine festivals etc, etc.  The cities only downfall is too much is packed into the same timeframes. …

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