Page 8 - Boca Exposure - April '20

Page 8, Boca Exposure
Dining Out: This Food Fight Is No Fun!

By Alan Serinsky of Bocaire. two reasons. The first reason is, I’m presently in the distant a recipe and deliver a cooked meal all by themselves.
Hungry Al’s love of food started continent of Antarctica. To celebrate this special milestone, To make matters worse, their pantry is limited and the
young. Never satisfied at the my wife and I decided to do something out of our comfort stores are out of the essential ingredients to prepare such
family dinner table with his zone and experience an expedition. recipes. Oy Vey!
Mom’s dishes, he started to cook After six days of touring this pristine environment, But hope is on the way … you just need to be
his own way through her Betty enjoying breathtaking landscapes, heretofore unseen wildlife, resourceful. Hopefully, by the time I get home most of
Crocker cookbook. His food traversing blue-tinted icebergs in both zodiac boats and you will have have figured out that cooking can be easy
journey consisted of working kayaks, and taking a cold plunge into the frigid waters of if you utilize the technology we have at our disposal.
many restaurants both as server and cook, attending the Antarctica sea, I can only wish everyone could get here A simple keyword in Google will deliver enough easy-
numerous cooking classes, and traveling the world in an in their lifetime. to-do-recipes, and YouTube or Food Network websites
effort to expand his palette of different flavors and cuisines. The second reason why birthday 2020 is so different have enough cooking videos to give you the stove skills
As a professional writer, Hungry Al will give you his is the heavy thought of my friends and family who are to someday win a James Beard Award.
perspective on current food trends and guide you through dealing with the everyday circumstances of navigating I try not to envision a world where every hungry
your local restaurant choices. a viral pandemic. There is a slight distaste in my dinner soul is subjugated to order one’s daily bread from only
I am writing this on March 11, my birthday, and doing the as I contemplate the fears of folks back home wondering various online delivery services. But reality has set in.
best to enjoy it. Except that today is like no other day … for where their next meal is coming from. Thankfully, in foresight we were somewhat prepared
Almost overnight, Americans everywhere are with the innovation of such businesses as GrubHub and
rethinking how to survive the taken-for-granted basic UberEats as our food salvation providers.
routine of their daily lives: Food. It hurts me to visualize Or maybe we can resort back to the days during World
our new world with mask-worn faces and gloved hands, War II when Americans were tending to their victory
struggling to fill grocery carts like an Armageddon gardens as their only supply of fresh vegetables and fruits.
survivor. There’s nothing like fresh-picked tomatoes or hand-dug
potatoes.
It’s also hard to realize that tables in restaurants are

Vine Trivia bare of white tablecloths and patrons. It’s painful to think when it comes to our stomachs. Maybe there’s a silver
But I place my bet on the American will and creativity
that normal everyday activities such as sport games,
Uncorked movies, shopping, and clubhouse gatherings are now in lining with this tragic moment of our lives. Could it be
possible for us to once again return to our kitchens and
lockdown.
But there is one thing we cannot live without, and that

relight our dormant stoves? Can we learn to economize
is food. our finances while stretching our pantry closets? Will we
By Laura Berrio, Easy for me today not to stress over three meals a finally know what it was like to live through the period
Freelance Writer/ day. I just take the elevator down four decks and find an of our parents’ Depression days?
Blogger ocean-view table to enjoy Chef Karl’s menu and sip a Personally, it’s been 21 days of nonstop food-
1. What temperature glass of wine with no cares in the world. But for the rest cruise eating and my waistline is starting to show the
should red wine be of the world questions arise, such as how to feed yourself repercussions. So, for Hungry Al getting home (if that’s
stored at and served at? and your family when restaurants are shuttered closed possible) will be a homecooked meal savior. As I prepare
Red wine should be and Publix store shelves are empty. to blow out my birthday candles, I make a wish that
stored at 55 degrees in Eating in the age of Coronavirus creates a whole new Costco doesn’t run out of my favorite foods, that I have
a wine refrigerator or culinary revolution. Those who have been relying on a full tank of gas, have ordered enough bottled water, and
cellar. Red wine should restaurants and their clubhouses to feed themselves are that my supply of toilet paper will carry us for at least a
be served at room now faced with that frightening word: Cooking! few months.
temperature … to clarify I can actually imagine several of my closest friends But most of all I wish that all my family, friends, and
… not room temperature sitting at their kitchen counters, looking at their age-tinted you my readers stay safe and healthy. That would be the
here in Florida … room cookbooks and wondering how they are going to follow best birthday wish to come true!
temperature in a nice
cool wine cellar … 70
degrees.
2. What color grapes
are used to make white
wine?
Red grapes!
3. How many grapes
does it take to make a
bottle of wine?
On average it takes
736 grapes to make one bottle.
4. How many bubbles in a bottle of champagne?
Almost 58 million!
5. Is the practice of walking on grapes (Think I
Love Lucy) still used in wine making?
It is! Usually when producing small quantities of
high end port wines.
6. What has the highest alcohol content: wine, beer
or whiskey?
Standard serving sizes of all alcohol beverages –
beer, wine, and liquor – are equal in alcohol strength
and effect on the body.
7. What type of wine has the lowest calories?
Dry and low alcohol content wines are the lowest
in calories … although I would rather drink what I
like and cut calories somewhere else!
8. What happens to red and white wine as they age?
Red wine gets lighter in color and white wine gets
darker in color.
9. How much pressure is there in a bottle of
champagne?
The pressure in a bottle of champagne is 90
pounds per square inch, about three times that in your
automobile tire.
10. Are you scared to open a bottle of champagne?
Now you have a reason to be! How fast does a cork
travel when you open it?
A flying cork can travel up to 50 mph.
~ Cheers
~ Keep the conversation going
and the wine flowing!

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