JAN: Accompanied Bob Gorman, Bill Fein, & other IWFS friends at Bob’s colleague Brian Edwards’ home for an Italian food & wine tasting flown in & prepared by Roberto Angelini & family from Enoteca Properzio, Spello, Umbria.
FEB: Ray Chen invited me to dinner at NYC’s classic Four Seasons for a delicious, impeccably served dinner.
FEB: Greeted the Year of the Ox at Karen Hsu’s Chinese New Year banquet at Tang Pavilion in NYC with Nautica’s David Chu, Shun Lee’s Michael Tong, Mon Ling Landegger, Miranda & Hamburg Tang, Jim Chang, & many others.
APR: Tom & Pat Shiah invited me to NYC’s beautiful new Bouley for foie gras, other delicacies, & great wines.
APR, MAY, JUN, AUG: Ate & drank heartily from our 900+ bottle cellar at our Int’l Wine & Food Society-Columbus dinners hosted by Lisal & Don Gorman, Sherran & Roger Blair, Skip & Karen Yassenoff, and Vivian & Jack Davis.
MAY: K.S. & Gina Liu introduced Mom & me over lunch to Tiger Woods photographer Jules Alexander at Trump Nat’l Golf Course in Briarcliff Manor, NY. Helped Jules tune & print his photos in the Liu’s villa with K.S.’s computer toys.
JUN: Cornell roommate Bob Crane visited New Albany from California after his 40th reunion at the College of Wooster.
JUL: Lunched at DB Bistro Moderne in NYC with Dominie & Adrian Tanovic & gallery hopped on their visit from Oxford.
JUL: Our IWFS-Columbus group hired a bus for Veggie U’s Food & Wine Celebration in Milan, OH. Dozens of chefs and wineries from all over the U.S. stuffed us with yummy tastes, demoed, & cooked-off, judged by the Food Channel’s Michael Ruhlman, to fund healthy eating education for kids.
AUG: Enjoyed drink, nosh, and the good company of my very nice neighbors at our monthly Alban Mews get-togethers.
AUG: Ray Chen introduced old dining friends - including Mom, authors Roxane Wit, Eunice Fried, Fred Ferretti & Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, and me - to NYC Chinatown’s new Three Ocean restaurant, with a 20-course 12-wine dinner.
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