The Vin Vivant

A person cultivating refined and sociable tastes when it comes to pairing food and drink

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Happiness Is a Ripe Avocado

By Audrey Luk March 22, 2013 Smaller bites 1 Comment
Happiness Is a Ripe Avocado

How can the “greatest city in the world” be bereft of decent quality avocados? I have no idea. This is why I left New York for California. Well, there were…

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Cheese-pocalypse Now

By Audrey Luk February 5, 2013 Smaller bites No Comments
Cheese-pocalypse Now

“A highway tunnel in Norway will be shut down for several weeks after being damaged by blank.” The only fill-in I could think of was impossible. Whenever I think of Norwegian…

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Punktastic Voyage

By Audrey Luk November 15, 2012 Main Course, Smaller bites No Comments
Punktastic Voyage

“We have a brûlée torch if you want to brûlée anything,” Punky typed to me by way of apology that her oven wasn’t working. This is going to be awesome, I thought!…

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