A Winemaker Talks about America by Joseph Mills With this machine, you can filter a wine so much you can take the color right…
On Continuing to Keep Wines that Have Peaked by Joseph Mills When we know the wines are as good as they will get, why…
When Will These Three by Joseph Mills In the hotel bar, three women sip wine, each tailored, coiffed, and manicured, each clearly in an…
Second Helpings by Meri Culp No man will take a second look if you scarf down second helpings, my mother warns, handing off the…
from The Gut Sonnets THE DEEP-FRIED RODENT OF HER ABSENCE, A SONNET TO BE READ BY MATT THAT HE MIGHT WIN BACK LISA I…
Popcorn by Braxton Younts Fact-fiction mockumentary cinematography Maize traveled bumpy Andes, through jungles Central America, nourishing natives, colonists, who spread shipping globally through time…
Failing to be One’s Own Father by Peter Burzynski “One should not try to excel one’s father’s industriousness; that makes one sick.” –Nietzsche Sixty-six…
WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IS LIKE FOOD AND FATTENS ME Oh, gee, jolly am I, and when I am jolly I am The jolliest. When…
Suggestions by Joseph Sciorra Eating alone in a new city, the waitress suggests that I try her favorite sake, junmai nama. Piquant shishito…