How to eat your way through Appleton, a Wisconsin city full of sweet surprises
Don't expect apples to be jumping out at you in Appleton. I found one on a recent trip, and it was a doozy. But others like it might be gone...
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In Starved Rock country there’s no excuse to go hungry, from crispy fried chicken to creamy peanut butter pie
Sometimes you just need to get in a car and drive, out to the edge of Chicago, through the suburbs and past the exurbs, to a place where the highway...
So long, and remember how good we have it — thanks, in part, to wine
My goodness, friends — let’s pull a cork and celebrate what we’ve had here, together, for the past three-plus years. This is my final column for Tribune Publishing, and before...
20 sparkling wines to fuel your holiday gatherings
You can never have enough sparkling wine — in any month, let alone December. Besides New Year’s Eve, you also have Christmas, Christmas Eve, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, Winter Solstice,...
Txakoli: Spain’s instantly likable wine is fun, fizzy and food-friendly
Although the traditional pouring technique of Spain’s txakoli could take a fair amount of time and practice to master (more on this later), the wine itself is instantly and effortlessly...
Skip the wine-pairing precision: On Thanksgiving, pretty much anything goes
I knew wine was special long before I ever had my first sip of it. The stuff had to be special because when I was a kid, it was always...
Alsace is known for distinct white wines from pinot blanc and pinot gris grapes
In wine, as in most things in life, there’s black and white, and then there’s gray. This idea is abundantly clear in Alsace, the wine region in northeastern France where...
What you need to know about ice wine, New York’s wintry nectar
From one of the country’s most-prolific wine-producing states comes one of the country’s rarest wine styles. The state is New York, and the style — ice wine — results in...
Get to know the elegant, versatile wines of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume
About two hours south of Paris, on the eastern end of the Loire Valley, two of the world’s most renowned sauvignon blanc appellations sit just a handful of miles apart....
Formidable and elegant, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano deserves room on your table and in your cellar
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is not having a midlife crisis. Not long after the DOC (Denominazione di origine controllata) system was implemented 52 years ago, in 1966 in Italy, Vino...