An Insider's guide to restaurants, wine, spirits and culinary travel
glass half full: 7/20/2017
Our weekly roundup of the most interesting food, wine and spirits stories on the web (because even Al Gore, who invented it, doesn't have time to read them all).
The Catholic Church is not a gluten-free zone.
Last week, at the request of Pope Francis, the Church issued guidelines concerning the composition of wine and wafers used at communion. Wafers must contain at least some gluten. The wine guidelines were fuzzier, and stirred considerable debate.
http://blog.wblakegray.com/2017/07/the-pope-natural-wine-can-contain.html
Filet of beef, hold the ketchup.
President Trump visits Le Jules Verne, Alain Ducasse’s Michelin-starred restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, for a meal with French President Macron:
https://www.eater.com/2017/7/13/15968928/donald-trump-paris-dinner-macron-alain-ducasse-jules-verne
The risks of writing a cookbook:
Turns out that the publishing world is just as abusive to celebrity chefs as they are to writers in general.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/07/chefs-cookbooks-hidden-risks.html
Unpleasant wine, drunken citizens: Party like it’s 1400.
The good old days were just old, not good:
Blue Apron stock is now cheaper than a Blue Apron meal.
Even on Shark Tank, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between a hero and a zero:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/07/blue-apron-shares-cheaper-than-blue-apron-meals.html
Drink great wine and spirits at wholesale cost.
Finally, a trend worth celebrating:
http://daily.sevenfifty.com/the-break-even-bottle/
