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Category Archive for 'taste test'

What’s That Smell? Wait, What’s That Flavor? A Maple Syrup Taste Test – Fake vs. Real.

Posted in Autumn, Canada, breakfast, condiments, embarrassment, flavor, sweet, taste test, travel on Oct 5th, 2009

***WE INTERRUPT THIS POST TO GIVE YOU HORRIBLE, SAD, SAD NEWS.  GOURMET MAGAZINE, A FOODIE INSTITUTION SINCE 1941, IS FOLDING BECAUSE OF SLUMPING AD REVENUE.  Jonny and I are completely disheartened and very pissed off. Our beloved , intelligently-written and interesting Gourmet has died. I really hope someone comes with a fat check and keeps it [...]

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Drink of the Month February: Taste-Testing Organic Vodka

Posted in America, alcohol, alcoholic drink, drink, taste test, vodka on Feb 2nd, 2009

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
- William Wordsworth, 1802
The term formative experience refers to an incident encountered when young that shapes an [...]

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