Month: April 2017

Ride of the Valkyries, The Spanish Version

​Recently Todd and I had a chance to check out the newest releases from Valkyrie Selections – the importing venture by the producers of California’s Banshee and Rickshaw wines.  Vintner Select wine mavens Danielle Redder and Lauren Wiethe dropped in to try us on some of their Spanish wines:

Mercat Brut Nature NV.  Bright, crisp, dry style Cava.  A blend of Macabeo, Paralleda and Xarel-lo.  Tart with hints of green apple skin,

Cline, Cline, Everywhere Some Cline

For those who don’t know Cline, this sustainably-farmed, family-owned winery has been operating since 1982, headed by winemaker Charlie Tsegeletos and assistant winemaker Tom Gendell.

Discoveries at the Jungle Pasta Month: Bambino Pasta and Caridom Noodles

It’s difficult to trace the origins of pasta, but it’s believed to have been invented around the 1st or 2nd century AD. Incredibly, It didn’t hit Italy until the 13th or 14th century! While you may think of Italy when you hear pasta, many cultures and countries around the world use pasta in their everyday dishes.

Pasta is typically made of dough that contains mostly wheat flour, but buckwheat, rye, rice and maize can be used as well,

Virginia Bakery Schnecken – Delicious, But Limited! 

Meaning “snail,” schnecken is a sweet, rolled baked good that falls somewhere between cake and pastry in texture, and resembles a cinnamon roll in flavor.

Discoveries at the Jungle Pasta Month: Conimex Pasta and Misko Pasta

It’s difficult to trace the origins of pasta, but it’s believed to have been invented around the 1st or 2nd century AD. Incredibly, It didn’t hit Italy until the 13th or 14th century! While you may think of Italy when you hear pasta, many cultures and countries around the world use pasta in their everyday dishes.

Pasta is typically made of dough that contains mostly wheat flour, but buckwheat, rye, rice and maize can be used as well,

Comedy In Paradise – Ready to Laugh?

We’ll be back at Eastgate this coming Saturday, April 15, for our second of four Comedy in Paradise events, so if you missed our first one, have no fear – there are more comedians and a lot more laughs on the way.

Discoveries at the Jungle Pasta Month: La Moderna Pasta and Wang Udon Kuk Soo

It’s difficult to trace the origins of pasta, but it’s believed to have been invented around the 1st or 2nd century AD. Incredibly, It didn’t hit Italy until the 13th or 14th century! While you may think of Italy when you hear pasta, many cultures and countries around the world use pasta in their everyday dishes.

Pasta is typically made of dough that contains mostly wheat flour, but buckwheat, rye, rice and maize can be used as well,

Inamorata, Her Name Is Sake

​Saké.  This slightly mysterious and formidable beverage is often misunderstood to most American consumers.  The name itself springs to mind visions of Japanese Hibachi steak houses with carafés of hot, weird-beverages that give your insides a cozy place by the fire, but the subsequent drunk is excessively harsh.  Yet as I become more-and-more fascinated by this beverage, the more I come to understand how intricate, how pairable, how incredible it is.  And while my love affair is still gestating,

Discoveries at the Jungle Pasta Month: Excellent Rice Stick Bihon and Bechtle Pasta

It’s difficult to trace the origins of pasta, but it’s believed to have been invented around the 1st or 2nd century AD. Incredibly, It didn’t hit Italy until the 13th or 14th century! While you may think of Italy when you hear pasta, many cultures and countries around the world use pasta in their everyday dishes.

Pasta is typically made of dough that contains mostly wheat flour, but buckwheat, rye, rice and maize can be used as well,

New Cookies, Just In Time for Easter! 

These limited edition cookies are now available at the Scratch Bakery at both Jungle Jim’s International Market locations. Stop by this weekend for a sweet treat,