Fall in New England is my favorite time of year. The temperature is perfect for outdoor activities like hiking and mountain biking, soccer season starts and I can watch my kids remember how to kick the ball again after a crazed summer of trips and vacation, but most of all I love fall because it’s [...]
Mark Umphrey was my fraternity brother at Phi Gamma Psi at the University of Lowell. While I hadn’t seem Mark in quite some time, I was terribly saddened to attend his wake this past Friday. Later that evening we toasted Mark with good friends and sake and shared memories of the Ump.
Cold sake and mountain biking are two of my favorite things to do. On the surface they seem like total opposite ends of the leisure spectrum. Sake is best consumed in a relaxed environment with food and friends. It’s very social and the high alcohol content means you don’t generally want to be moving at [...]
Is sake a wine or a beer? Actually sake is neither, it’s a beverage in its own class. The sake fermentation process has evolved over thousands of years and is completely unique from any other beverage. While sake is based on rice, it uses a special kind of rice that lends itself extremely well to the creation of sake. This post gives an overview of how sake is created from the harvesting and preparation of the rice through to bottling.
Chris Johnson is a sake sommerlier and the owner of Bao Noodles, a Vietnamese-style restaurant in Manhattan. I came across his video on Urban Sake, a nice sake site run by Timothy Johnson. Chris shares some of his experiences with sake and food pairing in this interview with Saveur Editor-in-Chief James Oseland.
The next time you’re at a sushi bar sharing a hot flask of sake between friends, or at a high-end sake bar sipping a daiginjo, keep in mind that the beverage you are enjoying has a history dating back several thousand years. Sake has a rich tradition dating back to 4000 BC. Over time the brewing process has evolved and there are many different types of sake available today. This post explains the different types of sake.
Rockport Massachusetts is on the tip of Cape Anne, a rocky peninsula 30 miles northeast of Boston. Cape Anne was settled in 1624 and was the 3rd colony in New England, just after Plymouth and Nantasket. Just west of Rockport on Cape Anne is the fishing town of Gloucester. The movie The Perfect Storm was [...]
John Gauntner is to sake what Julia Child was to French cooking in America. Widely known as “the sake guy”, John lives in Japan and has written five books on sake. John has wracked up honors that have historically been awarded only to native Japanese such as the Award for the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine [...]
As I was driving to my next meeting in Toronto I stopped at my favorite cigar place in the entire world. For cigar fans Frank Correnti Cigars on King St is the place. I discovered them while living in Toronto in 2000 (I don’t know where Sam the shoe shine man from the Westin is [...]
The last place I expected to get good sake was on the Danforth in Toronto. More commonly known as “Greektown”, this stretch of midtown Toronto has the highest density of Greek restaurants in North America. After an amazing dinner on a warm summer evening with my colleague Pete and two clients, we stopped at an [...]
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