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Something I Desperately Need: Wine Wipes

Posted on December 17th, 2008 11:31am by Sarah Eveans
Filed under Uncategorized

I have this problem. I love red wine. That’s not the problem (though my mother might tell you otherwise). The problem is, when I drink it, I get these nasty little red wine stains on my lips and the sides of my mouth that are totally icky and gross. But after today, I will no longer be a disgusting wino. According to my Daily Candy, I can buy these things called Wine Wipes at Pogos, and they will help me be clean and fresh. They come in a little compact thingy so your date will think you are just going to check your makeup quick, when really, you are going to take a quick swipe at your mug so later he won’t be thinking, “Are her lips bleeding?”

So, that’s what’s up over here. Speaking of that wine, I think I’m going to hit one of these spots tonight to imbibe. I need to be working, but I’ve been reading this article, which has nothing Dallas-related in it so I can’t find a reason to blog about it. But if you ever watched The Restaurant or thought Rocco was hot (guilty), it’s a good read. Bye.





7 Comments to “Something I Desperately Need: Wine Wipes”
  • Kitchen Confidential @ December 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Sarah – read the same article you’ve been reading and was struck by the observation how often Rocco is portrayed and satirized as a “supernaturally talented chef who squandered his gifts in the scattershot pursuit of fame, fortune, and pink ruffled shirts”. Even to the sad point of getting an award named after him at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival called the Rocco award for “worst career move by a talented chef”. Sad.

    The great Orson Welles once said of himself near the end of his life “at age 21 I wrote Citizen Kane and have been steadily working my way down ever since” . Hmmmmm.

  • Lisa P @ December 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    I gobbled up that article first thing this morning over coffee. I never saw The Restaurant, and I don’t watch Dancing with the Stars, but somehow I’m still fascinated by the whole Rocco D. situation.

  • Sarah Eveans @ December 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    @KC and Lisa P: I thought it was so interesting how Michael Ruhlman said “people in the food world miss him and want him back.” He has seemed like such a sellout in the past few years, but a good-natured one, at least.

  • Brandy @ December 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    why is everything that i think of… invented before i’ve had a chance to do it myself?!? helllllo, Topsy Tail! or that new adjustable Bra thing-y!!! or Hollywood Tape… i could go on.

  • Brandy @ December 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    oh.. and speaking of hawking wares (like the article refers to) I could NOT believe my eyes when I saw Rachel Rays latest, retarded ‘chef’ ware. The garbage bowl!!! the freaking dumb bowl that she uses to carry everything but the sink to the counter, and uses for her food prep refuse. Yes, the “Garbage Bowl” folks! Rush right out to get yours now!!!

    Unbelievable. I saw it at Barnes and Noble. Go figure.

  • Elizabeth @ December 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    I love Rocco! Dallas loves him. Lots of places love him besides NYC. And that’s OK. I wish him the best and look forward to whatever he decides to do next. I would love to have him over for pizza and wine with the girls next time he is in town. You have my email =)

  • Kitchen Confidential @ December 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Equally telling is Ruhlman’s follow up remark after the one you cited “He’s this really brilliant guy, foodwise, who’s forsaken everything that he’s good at for something that he’s not good at”. Case in point is his new food show ‘Rocco Gets Real’. Why would he call it that? It implies he used to what — not be real?

    I believe The Restaurant TV series should be required viewing for any culinary student as a means of learning how NOT to be in this business. Don’t get me wrong — I do feel bad for Rocco — but he’s now a spokesperson for Bertolli Olive Oil and like one of my heroes, Mr. Welles, this doesn’t bode well for a person who had it all in his field. And I can already see where this is going. Hopefully not.

    In other words, don’t really care to hear Rocco one day saying the line “Paul Masson — we will sell no wine before its time”.