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Sunday, April 25. 2010

Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate Tasting 2010

Ages ago I posted an article on how to do home tastings.  I thought I'd show you putting my comestibles where my dentition is, from a recent tasting at our apartment.  We threw this little party because we had too much fine wine around, and too much chocolate, and our local grocer (Haight Street Market) had just broadened his cheese stock.

We invited over our upstairs neighbors plus five friends who had all worked at the same businesses at different times, but had not yet met each other. Continue reading for tasting notes.


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Saturday, February 28. 2009

Home Tasting Party Ideas

Recently Lynn, on the Bulletin Board, raised the topic of doing home food tastings.  I've done quite a number of these, and they are a lot of fun -- great "foodie" activities for a medium-sized group.  If you stick to tastings of purchased, semi-perishable foods, then you have an activity for a weeknight party as well; you do your shopping the weekend before.

The classic tastings are wine, cheese and chocolate, because they offer quite  range of variety and almost everyone likes them.  They even go together; I've done a number of wine-and-chocolate tastings myself.  Even for the "big three" though, you have to decide what kind of tasting you're going to do.

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