Like Reading? Love Bourbon? This Is For You

Your weekend reading assignment is this superbly written piece on my favourite brown liquor. Where scotch seems to demand introspection bourbon demands to be drunk. If scotch is Burgundy, then bourbon is California zinfandel.

The pleasure of knocking back Bourbon lies in the plain
of the aesthetic but at an opposite pole from connoisseurship. My
preference for the former is or is not deplorable depending on one’s value system–that is to say, how one balances out the Epicurean virtues of cultivating one’s sensory end organs with the greatest discrimination and at least cost to one’s health, against the virtue of evocation of time and memory and of the recovery of self and the past from the fogged-in disoriented Western world.

I know bourbon geeks exist, I’ve seen them in magazines, but as a species the climate of the Pacific Northwest is too harsh for their refined needs, leaving Vancouver bourbon fans to enjoy their drink without the pedantry of zealots, something that can’t be said for scotch,  wine or beer.

And as extra special long weekend bonus content, here’s an early look at Tony Bourdain’s new book. Any book with a chapter titled “Alan Richman is a Douchbag” will probably be an okay read. Mostly because Alan Richman is, in fact a total douchbag.

~KT