If I have someone who says, ‘I don’t really know anything about wine,’ I like to probe them and say: ‘Well, what do you like when you taste a wine? Do you want it to taste like raspberries? Do you want it to taste like candy? Do you want it to taste like a summertime walk in a field of violet?’ There are all these different ways to consider what someone wants to feel in that moment. You could find something that has a lot of those same qualities, but just has a different name - just be open to a little bit of adventure. I think if we take a viewpoint of curiosity and excitement and wonder then it becomes a lot easier and a lot less intimidating to enter the world of wine, because it’s not going to hurt you to try a wine that sounds different than something you maybe know, like Cabernet or Chardonnay. There are so many good wines that won’t break your bank. I love this, because you know what? Wine is accessible. How do you advise people like me, who are kind of clueless? What’s a good way to introduce people to wine so they won’t be intimidated? For a sandwich, I love Dave’s Fresh Pasta. I live in Davis square, and I love Dakzen. It’s so hard to find a good restaurant burger. You know what? I had a phenomenal burger at Juliet the other night. I love Spoke Wine Bar in Davis Square in Somerville. Where do you like to eat when you’re not working? And to see now that we’re hopefully exiting the COVID world as we know it, to see all these new endeavors start popping up, makes my little heart happy. So I just think it’s really kind of beautiful. And it’s becoming true that we can almost eat every style of cuisine in Boston, too. We can drink anything from anywhere in the world. We have such a dedicated community to beverage, when I look around and see our local wine shops and wine bars. Honestly, we have almost every cuisine you could think of. And I think that Boston deserves some recognition. There are so many places that I’m excited about that are doing things unlike anywhere else.
I think it’s easy for people to hate on Boston when we have close neighbors like New York, but there’s some really incredible gems, if you just know where to look. How would you describe the food scene in Boston overall? What are the strong points, and how could it improve? I was like: This is authentic Mexican food!īut to us it was - because that was our world! I remember there was a Chili’s there, and it was my first time eating anything remotely spicy. I grew up in Acton, not too far from Burlington. I never knew anything other than taco night and spaghetti and meatballs until it was too late. I never knew fine dining until I was an adult. The Ground Round, which doesn’t exist anymore. Which restaurants did you go to growing up? And I think that’s when I really started throwing myself into wine. This feels more soul-sucking than uplifting.’Īfter one stint in a cubicle, I realized: No more. I was like, ‘Oh, my God I can’t stare at gray walls all day. I was sitting in a cubicle all day, every day. Ever since then, I was kind of just hooked by the majesty of it all.ĭuring a spell when I was in school, I took on another job doing graphic design for a company. I didn’t know wine could taste like that. And I remember the first time I smelled a wine that wasn’t something like Barefoot or Kendall Jackson at a family Christmas. She teaches the staff every month about wine. I still remember the first wine class I took with her. She’s the best somm in the city, and she was an incredible mentor. But really, the place I fell in love with wine was at Taberno de Haro in Brookline, with owner Deborah Hansen. I worked at a pizza shop, and then after that I worked at an Irish pub. I just never really left the food industry after that. I suppose you could paint that as my first foray into the world of beverage. We were singing songs and running the drive-thru, and it was fun. I was taking a bite of every doughnut I could get my hands on.
All our friends got the senior discounts. I don’t know how they let a pack of four teenagers run the place every day. We all lovingly refer to it as ‘Centah Dunks.’ I grew up in Burlington, and I worked at the Dunkin’ Donuts in the center of town. When I was 16, I got a job working at a Dunkin’ Donuts because I am a true Massachusetts girl.
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