tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post7195777205771848400..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: Red BountyNewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-51447952466281429562014-09-22T20:24:51.808-07:002014-09-22T20:24:51.808-07:00There are middle Eastern recipes that utilise sour...There are middle Eastern recipes that utilise sour grapes.<br />Perhaps on their second and third fruiting seasons they will get sweeter.<br />A Santa Cruz wine I tried in a small winery, was explained by the vintner as a rarity. The strand of vines was out of the main growing area by a ridge the vines were old and we're not watered late in season.<br />They were scheduled for replacement.<br />Last late harvest...<br />This was posted five years ago<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Digestion. </b><br />It is a long process in humans, takes about 8 hours in the least.<br /><i><br />Hardly enough time, to chew on rare choice beef,<br />tenderly marinated in late summer wine coaxed from the wizned berries of a south facing old coastal vine.<br />Relaxed former muscles tensing their last, arching lazily over a smoldering fire. <br />Roiling fog banks blanketing licks of flame dancing on a pygmy oak log.<br />Returning, retelling, exhaling in its last gentle hiss, <br />it’s history of carbon chains, laid down, linked, sequestered a thousand moons ago,<br />inside a silver-gray wood, that still remembers the faint scars of its first encounter<br />with the yet to be named California Grizzly Bear. <br /><br /><br /></i><br />Alon Perlman<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com