Are wine grapes among best barometers of climate change?

Nifty (if troubling) piece in Slate looking at whether grapes are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine for global warming.

Hitting The Road for West Coast Earth Day Book Tour…tour…tour…tour…

I’m heading this week for a West Coast book tour. Now I know what you’re thinking: Dear god, why would anyone want to go listen this idiot read from some book about cocktails, organic or not?

Don’t worry, this idiot won’t be reading. He’ll be shaking. As in making tasty cocktails, which if you come to any of these [...]