“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” –Abraham Lincoln COFFEE REBORN Growing up in the era where Maxwell House, Folgers and Taster’s Choice were considered coffee, it’s no wonder the world’s most ubiquitous drink became a milk-filled sugary concoction by mid-century with only a vague relation to the complex nuanced taste of real coffee. It was the space age – the age of Tang, freeze-dried, dehydrated everything. Something complicated made easy. Drink it black? Nearly impossible to do, and so nearly no one did. But along came three guys –...
Braves Fantasy Camp ...
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Author’s Note: I attended Braves Fantasy Camp last year at the Braves spring training facility at Walt Disney World in Florida. I intended to write a complete report – but I realized what I wanted to talk about wasn’t actually the things that happened at camp, but as silly...
Braves Fantasy Camp
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Exactly why does one go to Fantasy Camp? I’m not entirely sure, but when your wife says, “Hey, you should go do this,” and points at the Braves Fantasy Camp email, you don’t give her time to change her mind. Beginning next Tuesday, I’ll be reporting from the...
Watches, Pianos, and...
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Ask just about any casual passerby to name a luxury watch and fine piano and you’ll hear two names – Rolex and Steinway. But are these brands really snob worthy? To be an authentic snob, one must have invested at least some time into one or several interests of the plethora of...
Pheasant Hunting ...
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Regents, North Dakota. Before this weekend, what did this sleepy town of just a few hundred souls mean to me? Nothing, of course. But now it’s where Eric and Sarah and Cheryl and Shirley and the Cannonball Company wait for the one time of year (October) when pheasant hunters from all...
Drinks, shopping, an...
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SoHo, TriBeCa, the Brandy Library and the Palmer Trading Company This trip was my first stay in Soho and my first chance to explore the area. We were on Varick St. which is what 7th Ave turns into below Houston (remember SoHo stands for South of Houston). Just to the south is the...