MANGO and GINGER

It's been a busy couple months around here. We've been getting out and about quite a bit, which means my "stuff to write" list is painfully long.
Here's a quick recap of two of the best dinners we've had over the past month:
B+O American Brasserie

I am feeling sunny as anything today - and that is only partly related to the weather gods finally granting us a brief reprieve from the constant rain.
It's also because I have big plans today: instead of work, work, working, I'm heading to Black-Eyed Susan Day with a handful of fun ladies. Then, for the rest of the weekend, I plan to relax, watch some lacrosse and horses, and generally enjoy myself...

Thrillist writer Kevin Alexander has written a big, intense essay that makes me want to stand up and cheer. It's called "Why the 'Hot New Food Town' Must Die" - and though "die" might be a stretch, I agree with pretty much everything he writes.
It appears that at some point, Alexander was planning to write about Pittsburgh's burgeoning food scene - the city is being hailed all over the place as the next big thing in dining. Instead, he applied what he observed about Pittsburgh - and other places...

At the end of last summer, I insisted I was over rose. I'd had enough of the pink. I moved on.
I should've known I was fooling myself. Here we are, nearly a year later and now that it's springtime in Baltimore, I'm fully back on the rose train.
Coteaux du Libron 2013 by Flickr user Chris Pople...