Drinking Local: De Dolle Brewery

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This installment of “Drinking Local” comes to you via my recent trip to Belgium. There is no better activity than to drink local in Belgium. Not only is it incredibly easy to do, but the beer is second to none. De Dolle Brewery is hidden away in the smallest of towns in West Flanders. They have a small, family-run business, and happen to like it that way.

Read more | Comments (0) | 2010-06-13

Drinking Local, Part 1

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One of the aspects of my fair city – Nashville – that is often overlooked is the non-musical arts scene. As a home to many media and entertainment concerns, we have need of, and thus attract, a host of artistic types who spend their time drawing pretty pictures, and designing nice things to make use of those pictures. And this has been going on for quite some time.

One of the most famous “pretty picture” brands in town is the Hatch Show Print shop. Founded in 1879, it has throughout its history been making its distinct letterpress designs the way God and Hank Williams intended: by hand. Long associated with both country music artists and early Americana advertising campaigns, the Hatch shop keeps up a brisk business today churning out in-demand and short-run designs from its small downtown Nashville shop.

And now they’re helping me drink.

Read more | Comments (0) | 2009-12-13

               

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Food, History, Money and Math

Posted by David on 2009-10-19

Gourmet TodayWhen last we left you, I teased a new feature/series/focus for the website related to a new cookery book of almost mythic girth. A thousand-page testament to food on paper that we would not only use in exercise by simply picking up, but also something that we would be cooking from. And I’m here to tell you a little bit more about that.

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Call To Action

Posted by David on 2009-02-03

Ok, in order to get this blog started off right, I think we need to begin by issuing a call to action.

If you’re reading this site, it probably means one of two things: (1) you know one or both of us personally, find us both physically and mentally irresistible, and would therefore probably read any site that we started, be it for competitive yoga or minutia on historical tantric chant; or (2) you are interested in food and cooking. We’re going to assume that most of you are in the latter group, mainly for tax purposes.

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