Food/Wine Archive

Here’s a screwball wine that came out of a bunch of winery purchases Robert Mondavi made before he died. Mondavi was purchasing other California wineries for tax purposes, but one of the wines produced from these wineries is Robert Mondavi Private Selection – Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon, with a black label. Adam says it’s

Dvorak started with a little lecture on Sake. Ginjo Sake is your baseline; it means it’s at least 100% rice wine and not distilled from other stuff. One observation Dvorak has made over the last thirty years is that when he buys sake from Costco or the local fish market, if it’s in a blue

At first John Dvorak described this a screwball product, but Allulose appears to be a safe sugar substitute that doesn’t affect glucose levels. Dvorak swears it tastes exactly like sugar. Dvorak researched this product and described Allulose as a rare sugar that can be found in raisins and figs. At NoAgendaFun.com we eat high-protein, low-carb

John Dvorak acknowledges that people often get sick of their own cooking. His solution is to mix up the flavor profile by trying other seasonings. His latest tip is to get Vegeta All Purpose Seasoning. He thinks it comes from Eastern Europe and is available at many international supermarkets or Amazon. He describes it as

John Dvorak has found another winning Costco wine buy. This time it’s the Kirkland Cabernet Sauvignon from Alexander Valley (a terrific wine growing region to visit by the way) for less than ten bucks! John: Normally, I don’t do wine tips often, but occasionally I do. I don’t do as many from Costco because, except

Listeners and Producers of the No Agenda Show know that John Dvorak is keen on interesting chili peppers, that’s why today’s tip is this fantastic online resource from the Chili Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. John C. Dvorak: This is a site, it’s called the “Chile Pepper Institute”, it is run out of

John C. Dvorak is always on the hunt for a new tasty hot sauce and his latest find is Tabasco Scorpion Sauce from the famous Louisana Tabasco hot sauce company, McIhenny Co. Their Tabasco Scorpion Sauce’s heat is fueled by super-hot scorpion peppers. John: It’s just a different tip… The reason is because it comes

John Dvorak has another winning wine tip, this time it’s the outstanding WineSearcher.com wine portal. It’s an easy-to-use database on wines, wineries, reviews and places to find that specific wine you always wanted to get. John: Wine-searcher.com. This is a huge, monstrous database of wines—with all the reviews and all the stores that sell the

No Agenda Producer Robert Majors sent John Dvorak a bag of Hawkins Cheezys. Think of it as Canadian Cheetos. It’s a terrific product and you can get them from Amazon. John says he hasn’t found them in a store. John Dvorak: I want to thank Robert Majors for sending me a big, giant triple bag

John dropped a quick tip while discussing exotic emu and ostrich eggs–get the Heirloom Blue eggs from Costco. We saw these a couple of months ago in our local (West Coast) Costco. Pretty awesome for the money. BTW, Tina Curry reports and, we have confirmed, that Costco now has 24 eggs for only $8.35. We