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“skinny girl” wines? wtf?

23 Thursday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in culture, food & drink, wine, wtf?

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marketing, scams, skinny wines, wine, wtf?

So I came across this today, which I thought was quite vile. A brand called “skinny girl” (bad enough in itself) that is promoting “skinny wine” at – gasp! – 15% fewer calories than a regular glass of wine. WTF?

Apparently this is the brainless-child of someone called Bethenny Franklin, who previously marketed a range of “skinny cocktails”…

This supposed “Food-Health-Lifestyle Guru” appears to be promoting more alcohol consumption with less guilt about getting fat, as none of her wine products are lower in alcohol than other wines, and are only slightly lower in calories. According to this Wine Spectator article, most dry wines are about 100 calories per 5-ounce glass, though may vary up to as high as 120 calories. So what Franklin seems to be marketing is the opportunity of doing the same amount of liver damage with only the tiniest bit less damage to one’s already anorexic figure…


…because who the hell else would care so much about 20 extra calories a glass???

pigging out in style

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, tapas, twitter, wine, work

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iberian pork, sevilla, seville, spain, tapas


One of the perks of having run the Sevilla Tapas blog for almost five years now is that I occasionally get invitations to interesting (usually food-related) events. What’s also interesting is that – as a blogger – I am getting acknowledged as “press” and even – gasp! – as a writer.

Yesterday I was invited to Restaurante Alcuza by gastronomy photographer Manolo Manosalbas, to preview their “Iberian Pork Days” menu, which will be available to the public starting today until March 3rd. Everything from starters to dessert featured cerdo Ibérico de bellota, the best of the best, made from acorn-fed blackfoot free-range pigs.


I have to admit that I wasn’t crazy about the ice-cream, but everything else was sensational and was perfectly accompanied by wines from Bodegas Torres. After six tapas I was quite happily stuffed! I was also glad to have a chance to revisit Alcuza as I had first gone there almost two years ago but hadn’t been back. Question of too many tapas bars, too little time and money. But I will definitely be back to Alcuza again soon.

Looks good, doesn’t it?

just another day…

04 Saturday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, restaurants, retail therapy, sevilla, spain, wine, work

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friends, restaurants, sevilla, seville, shops, tapas bars

Yesterday started off as usual, though I was a bit miffed at having to miss the gym due to a late morning meeting. But the meeting went well and after a late lunch at home I thought I’d stay in and get some work done. I recently got commissioned to write a short piece for a very prestigious travel mag and wanted to get a good start on that. But I had a couple of other things on my to-do list and thought I’d get those out of the way first, and so I popped over to take a wine photo for one of my social media clients and then planned to pick up a new dish draining rack on the way home and get back to work. But first…

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me and da boyz

01 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, internet, restaurants, sevilla, social media, wine, work

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food, la azotea, sevilla, tapas, work


Don’t you wish all your evenings could end like this…?

wacka-wacka

18 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, wine

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langoustines, seville, tapas, wine

AMAZING langoustine burger with poached quail egg and huancaina sauce.

But I can’t stop calling it wacka-wacka sauce.

Maybe because it was after a lovely wine tasting event this evening at Al Aljibe?

f_redwine.gif *hic*

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