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Ian

It's all about the gravity feed...

About Me

I can drive with one hand better than most people can drive with two. My skills with a wood grill are unparalleled.

My Interests

I love to eat and cook:

Sashimi, bread, pasta, red peppers, salmon, truffle oil, eggs, capers, BBQ!

A little about the wines I enjoy:

This is Burgundy (pinot noir) from Domaine Dujac. The terroir is evident in this world-class pinot noir.

This is the pinot noir grape.

This is a Batard Montrachet white Burgundy (chardonnay) from Domaine Leflaive. This is top-notch white Burgundy.

Exercise:

Tennis, Stairs, Hiking, Road Biking (cycling), Snowshoeing, Skiing, Rock Climbing, Racquetball.

Music:

The Clash, Shannon Hoon, Oscar's Mad, Counterfist, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, Wedding Present, Smiths, Radiohead, Built to Spill, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Blind Melon, Brother Grim, Caustic Resin, CMA, The Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Deee-Lite (oh mama), Depeche Mode, Digable Planets, DJ Dan, DJ Omar Santana, DJ Icey, DJ John Kelley, DJ Shadow, Roni Size, Doc Martin, DJ Donald Glaude, Pixies, The Dust Brothers, Fugees, Hardkiss, Grateful Dead, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hieroglyphics, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Hendrix, Lee "scratch" Perry, Mercury Rev, Misfits, The New Pornographers, Phife Dawg, Pixies, The Police, Porno for Pyros, The Promise Ring, The Propellorheads, Run DMC, Sade, Sarah McLachlan, Simply Jeff, Violent Femmes, Thom Yorke...

Television:

The History Channel, The Food Network, anything not insulting(to my intelligence).

Books:

Cookbooks, Shogun, Tai Pei, King Rat, Judgement of Paris, Robert Parker, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc.

Heroes:

George M. Taber.....

That one kind of magic moment when Raymond Olivier who was the owner of Le Grand Vefour restaurant, one of the leading restaurants in Paris, he held a white wine up and he looked at it and he smelled it and he swirled it around and then finally he tasted it and then he held it up again and said,"ahhhhh back to France."......................The only trouble was he had just tasted a Freemark Abbey Chardonnay from the Napa Valley.

And that was not the case it was just in the opposite where one of the French judges tasted uhh no just smelled a wine and said,"ahh this must be California, it has no nose". He had just smelled a Batard Montrachet, one of the most famous of all and most expensive of white Burgundy's.