Dear Feastlings,
I’m not entirely clear on how this might be considered the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Granted, I have a curmudgeonly streak, but as I scrambled to a chain grocery store for items we were shorted by our purveyors this morning, and then to another big box store against my better judgment and my personal moral compass, I heard Christmas music incessantly, as well as more on the radio in the car in between, and the only wonder I could muster is how someone can work an eight- or ten-hour shift in retail while listening exclusively to tin-can Christmas music from mid-November through Christmas.
My Christmas wish is an isolation tank.
All of that whinging out of the way, I have nothing against celebrating whatever holiday one prefers to celebrate, most notably if it involves food and drink. As such, we’ve got a Christmas menu available from which to order through the rest of the week, and you’ll be able to pick it up on the 24th with heating instructions so that you can watch undisturbed the young ones play with the box that their gift came in, or capture a photo of the polite smile that comes with the gift the recipient had made explicitly clear they DIDN’T want you to get them, or just fall asleep in a chair with eggnog aromatics still in the air. You can still order through this Saturday, but you get extra nice points and no naughty marks against you if you order sooner than later so we know how much duck and beef to get ordered in.
Here’s the menu:
There’s also a menu for New Year’s Eve if you’d care to join us,
and our weekly wine tasting this Saturday.
I’d also like to invite you to the our first of many food and drink events we’ll be offering in 2026- this one with loads of historical discussion as well: A partner event with Alex La Pierre of Borderlandia Border Tours and Arielle DeSoucey of Civil Wines:
Is there more? There is, but not until we’ve muddled through the holidays- we’ll be doing an old-timey donation run like we used to do during every global pandemic, wine dinners with the founders and winemakers of Copia from Paso Robles and St. Innocent from the Willamette Valley, and undoubtedly another boatload of other events to keep us occupied.
Meanwhile, I’ll just keep my head down and some sort of earplugs in, and hope for the best.
Your friend,
Doug