sardinian wine

• Assignment: Epicurean Escape

After dinner, I ask for a suggestion for a drink and I'm offered a rum punch, "Be careful," the bartender tells me, "It's very strong." It is strong. Three sips and I believe I could undergo dental surgery. Five sips and I begin to believe I could perform dental surgery. People are surprisingly serious about theses classes and listening to snippets of conversations around the room, you discover that many people come back year after year, and a large number of them work in the restaurant industry. The guest chefs attend each others' classes (I found myself next to chef [Norma Shirley] in Efiso [Farris]' class) and there are youthful staff in kitchen whites taking notes from the edges of the rooms. It's a kind of de-constructed guacamole. He's peeled and sliced an avocado but allowed it ...

... Jamaica to lead cooking classes, teach about wine, compete in a cook-off and, finally, cap off the w...Some of the chefs in attendance were Sardinian-born Efisio Farris (Arcodoro & Pomodoro Ristoranti...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 28, 2009