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Wine of the Week: Chateau Langlade Medoc

This is the first wine from the shifty 2012 vintage in Bordeaux that I have wanted to review.

Small Plates: The Commissary Latin Kitchen

The Commissary, which opened late last month, is on the first floor of the Downtown Grand’s West Tower, just across Third Street from the casino.

 
Jelly Belly debuts beer-flavored jelly bean

Jelly Belly has finally given the people what they want: a beer-flavored jelly bean.

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Taste of the Town: Thick Amish-style noodles found in two locations

Charles Waddell is looking for a local source for thick Amish-style noodles like he used to get at Glazier’s Food Marketplace, and in response, Pamela Moore emailed that she makes her own.

Wine of the Week: Les Jamelles Sauvignon Blanc Vin de Pays D’Oc

Languedoc-Roussillon in the south of France stretches along the Mediterranean coastline from the east where it borders Provence into the west where it comes down to the Spanish border and the Pyrenees Mountains.

Small Plates: Jayde Fuzion

Jayde Fuzion, led by Seonkyoung Longest, winner of the Food Network’s “Restaurant Express,” opened in December in the space formerly occupied by Marinelli’s Italian Restaurant.

Supercalifragilistic Teas on tap for production of ‘Mary Poppins’

In coordination with Green Valley High School’s premiere production of “Mary Poppins,” the theater department will host Supercalifragilistic Teas on Feb. 1 and 8. The teas will include appearances by characters from the production.

On the Menu: Popcorn

Sunday is National Popcorn Day, and there’s plenty popping in local restaurants.

Locals Only: Olympic fever

If you’re anything like us, every four years you find yourself glued to a TV at 3 a.m. watching a couple of regular-looking folks sweep a patch of ice with brooms while thinking to yourself, “If that’s all it takes to be an Olympian, I’m there!”

Crafty baristas please customers with arty lattes

The days of only four coffee options — black, cream, sugar or cream and sugar — are long gone, as we all know. Today, you can get a coffee drink with so many options it’s impossible to list them all.

Wine of the Week: Planeta La Segreta Rosso DOC

This is one of my favorite everyday drinking wines. It is from the superb Sicilian producer Planeta, one of the great little family-owned wineries making tremendous value wines from this historic island.

Taste of the Town: Shrimp dip recipes abound but not for one relished

This week we have good and bad news for Taste of the Town reader R.N. Dutcher. First, the latter: No, fellow readers haven’t found the shrimp dip you described. And now the former: You asked, alternatively, for a simple recipe, and there readers came through in spades.

Small Plates: Crush and ‘Come Home to Supper’

Crush Eat, Drink, Love — from The Morton Group restaurateurs Michael and Jenna Morton and with William DeMarco as executive chef — opened in December, with a menu of wood-fired pizzas and small and large plates intended for sharing.