Stories from Bigger Than Your Head

  1. That Pork Chop Thing Again

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 20, 2009

    Last night we cooked for the umpteenth time the pork chops with a cumin-chili powder rub, seared briefly and then baked with garlic, cilantro and lime zest. The pork chops always emerge from the oven surpassingly moist, tender and flavorful.… Full Story »


  2. A Chronicle, #14 & 15

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 17, 2009

    In this chronicle of 100 wines, readers, it’s March 1984, yes, a hair less than 25 years ago. We drank a variety of wines that month, of course, including the Callaway Petite Sirah 1975 from Temecula (”the most intense wine… Full Story »

    • Sauvignon Blanc

  3. A Great Debut Wine

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 16, 2009

    Trivium is a collaboration of Napa Valley grape-grower Doug Wright, winemaker Jack Stuart and marketer Stu Harrison. The winery’s debut product is Trivium Les Ivrettes Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2005, St. Helena. Composed of 100 percent cabernet sauvignon grapes, the wine… Full Story »


  4. The Pinot of Our Discontent

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 15, 2009

    Can it be that hard to make great or even good pinot noir wines? Sure, it’s a delicate grape, a little high-strung, requiring careful nurture. Here, however, is my more than reasonable dicta to (mainly) producers in California, for whom… Full Story »

  5. I Couldn’t Stand the Thought of a California Chardonnay …

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 12, 2009

    … with the steelhead salmon that LL was preparing for dinner last night. Looking in the wine refrigerator in the garage, all I saw were bottles of chardonnay from California, and I knew by experience what kind of chardonnays these… Full Story »


  6. Companionable Campania

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Feb 7, 2009

    Even the heel of Italy’s boot gets more wine respect these days than Campania, once home — in the days of toga-wearing Romans — to some of the Mediterranean’s greatest wines. Though a shadow of its former vinous self, Campania… Full Story »


  7. A Chronicle, #11, 12 & 13

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Jan 30, 2009

    We had fun with wine and learned a lot during the third and fourth weeks of February 1984. (For readers who have not encountered my posts of “100 Wines: A Chronicle,” it’s a record of the 100 wines I learned… Full Story »


  8. Comfort Is So Comforting

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Jan 25, 2009

    This month’s array of food magazines at the newsstand focuses on one concept: Comfort, as in comfort food; braised meats; hearty soups and stews; hearth and home; returning to traditional culinary roots. One reason for this ubiquity must be the… Full Story »


  9. Give the Calories to the Kids

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Jan 22, 2009

    So the inaugural lunch looked pretty tasty. Seafood stew en croute followed by a “brace of American birds” — duck and pheasant on a bed of Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots and spinach, with wild cherry chutney — and for dessert,… Full Story »


  10. A Pinot from Rheingau …

    Bigger Than Your Head &bull Jan 20, 2009

    … and I don’t mean pinot blanc. Pinot noir is the dominant red grape in Germany, and has become so popular that plantings of pinot noir (called spatburgunder) have tripled since 1980 to about 30,250 acres. Pinot noir grapes are… Full Story »

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