Gonzo Gastronomy — Gonzo Gastromony The Angels & Demons of Food & Wine

“I’ve been to the edge, and there I stood and looked down…”

by Katie Gomez September 21, 2010

The parallels between music and gastronomy, be it food, wine, beer, spirits…whatever, are so numerous and so tightly drawn that experiencing them casually—with no emotional attachment whatsoever—is to do them an injustice. Sure, I guess there’s mindless music (I’d throw disco in that category) that isn’t really meant to touch the soul as easily as […]

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“Happy together, unhappy together, and wouldn’t it be fine…”

by Katie Gomez September 17, 2010

Anniversaries are a funny thing. When you’re younger, you look at them with eyes that reflect wonder, excited at what your future together will bring. But as you get older, you often look at anniversaries with eyes that reflect amazement, awed by what your past has brought you and how you’ve managed to get through […]

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“Brought ’em down to the corner, down to the country store…”

by Katie Gomez September 15, 2010

There were a few moments last Friday when I caught myself behaving like the pre-pubescent version of myself, despite the fact that I was deftly maneuvering my red Mazda 3 through midtown traffic and I was pretty sure that pre-pubescent Katie didn’t know jack shit about opposite-side-of-the-street parking regulations. When I was about ten years […]

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“And when I awoke, the world was on fire…”

by Katie Gomez September 11, 2010

Please take a moment to stop and remember today, friends. Whether we personally lost someone nine years ago or not, the truth is, we all lost someone. Let’s all lift a glass tonight in remembrance. Bob Schneider, one of my absolute favorite musicians, was scheduled to fly into New York City September 9th, 2001 and […]

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“I might be great tomorrow, but hopeless yesterday…”

by Katie Gomez September 7, 2010

There is a psychological tenet that states that the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts—the Thinker and the Prover—and “Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.” If the Thinker thinks that the sun moves around the earth, the Prover will obligingly organize all perceptions to fit that thought; if the […]

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“For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of…”

by Katie Gomez August 27, 2010

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I’ve fallen victim to the boredom of summer television and have succumbed to watching Master Chef despite the fact that I could just as easily turn the TV off and read a book, gaze at the stars or actually…you know…talk to my husband. The truth is that […]

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“Like everything else that I’ve been through, it opened up my eyes…”

by Katie Gomez August 19, 2010

Any man who quotes Anaïs Nin in a book about wine automatically gets bonus Gonzo points from me, and if in same said book he’s got wordplay with Blue Öyster Cult lyrics, well I develop a crush that tends to sway me to overlook the fact that I needed to keep a dictionary handy while […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: “Could we have kippers for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear…”

by Katie Gomez August 18, 2010

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“Close to you baby as a pig is to poke…”

by Katie Gomez August 12, 2010

When the bacon-on-everything fad has long gone (and believe me, it will go), I’ll still be the one hoarding my rendered bacon fat, smoking my own pork belly and baking my own pig candy—as certain as death and taxes. But I’m the first to admit that I’m pretty giddy about bacon being ubiquitous right now, […]

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