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Month: September 2017

  • Brooklyn Cured, Old World Crafted – Bresaola at The Cheese Shop

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    ​An excellent cut of dry cured beef top-round, this Bresaola is coated in porcini mushroom and black pepper to add an even deeper level of flavor that you don’t usually get with Bresaola. 

    Starting in 2010, Chef Scott Bridi wanted to create products that represented the diversity of the Brooklyn neighborhood he was from and create meat products that everyone from every type of background could enjoy. Bridi runs the company with only a handful of employees,

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  • Get Into The Groove with Throwback Candy & Toys from the 1960’s!

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    ​If you’re feeling groovy, step back in time with me to the 1960’s. Lots of our favorite candies and toys came out in the 60’s, so let’s get started with a local favorite – the Marshmallow Cone.   This light and fluffy snack started production in 1936 by a Cincinnati tailor looking to make some extra money, but didn’t gain popularity until the 1960’s, under new leadership. To this day, every aspect of the MarPro Marshmallow Cone is still done in-house in Cincinnati, Read article

  • Discoveries at the Jungle: Oktoberfest Edition!

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    Welcome to Discoveries at the Jungle, where each month we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting, flavorful and sometimes bizarre international items Jungle Jim’s has to offer. This month, we’re featuring items from Germany in celebration of Oktoberfest! Some past focuses this year have been coffee, tea, snacks, pasta, candy, cookies, condiments, and more! If you missed those posts, make sure you go back and give them a read.

    Oktoberfest has a rich history dating back to 1810,

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  • Bring It On Home

    • Posted: 9/4/2017
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    I know, I know.  It’s been 8 years since I went on the Road Trip Washington Wine and I am still going on about it, sue me.  It was a great trip, where I met a lot of really cool people in the industry.  It’s where I met more than a few luminaries in the wine biz, and rekindled my love affair with Washington State wines.

    So rewind just a bit to I believe was the Day 3 of the trip,

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  • Where The Wild Things Are

    • Posted: 9/3/2017
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    There is a place I like to go from time to time when I want to slow down the pace of the day-to-day, simplify and just reset this old machine.  The town is Yellow Springs, Ohio, and I discovered it in the fourth grade, on a school camping trip to a place called Glen Helen Nature Preserve.  For those of you that really know me, camping is not something I do (I am most certainly lousy at it), Read article

  • Yes Virginia There Is Such Thing As A Grape Tree

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    Most people don’t realize I am a poet.  It’s not like that is a glorious vocation in high demand or anything, and I most assuredly will never get rich writing poetry, but it is yet another notch on the overly-elongated nerd belt I wear to work each and every day.  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a poem about the big, unkempt grape vine that resided in the back corner of my house growing up in Beavercreek, Read article

  • Theise Is The Word…And Other Fizzy Hits

    • Posted: 9/2/2017
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    Whenever we get the invite to a Terry Theise portfolio tasting, you know we are already on the way there.  Terry Theise is synonymous with incredible German and Austrian wines, as well as some of the best grower Champagnes known to man, and Vintner Select hosted their most recent event – a sparkling wine show – feature many of the Theise Champagne offerings as well as other great sparkling wines from Loire, Italy, Spain and much much more.

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  • Trocken Rhymes With Dokken

    • Posted: 9/1/2017
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    What is weirdest to me is the extraordinary level of serendipity that has occurred in my life with regards to my professional life.  It feels like all roads have led to this place, this moment.  I worked at a trucking company about 30 years ago (Holy Peter Paul and Mary I feel old!) – I joke with my bosses, who else can claim they were a loadmaster on their resumé (and commence jokes here).

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  • Wine Department: One Month Removed – Our First Jungle Jim’s Wine Safari

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    After a very successful journey to the Willamette Valley, I would like to reflect on some of the better stops along the way. We toured 14 wineries in 5 days in a whirlwind tour of the valley.  The trip was divided up by four of the sub AVA’s of the Willamette Valley. Each of the regions grow primarily the same varietals, but terroir gives each its own flair. The Willamette Valley boasts the best Burgundian-style wine outside of France. Read article
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