Hi/surprise it’s a newsletter on a Sunday! Spring has fully arrived in Charleston, everything all vibrant and growing and that sharp, new green. Even better, vaccines are fully being rolled out here and it seems like a lot of people have been able to get at least one dose of the shot. I feel, for the first time in a very long time, like celebrating. Do you remember how to do that? I don’t. Do I do it with other people? At night or in the afternoon? Do I send invitations? Do people still invite people to stuff on Facebook? Wait, do people still use Facebook? Not really, right? Is it weird if I make all of my friends give me their emails so I can send them evites? What do you “eat” at a “celebration” anyways? My instinct is fried chicken and prosecco. Also, cake, obviously. My mom and dad used to take my sister and I to McDonald’s for breakfast on the last day of school and we’d be sticky for the rest of the day from the syrup that came in those little plastic boxes. Change and warm weather and excitement always makes me crave those paper thin pancakes from McDonald’s and a greasy hashbrown in a little paper sleeve.
Whine wine wind
I do this thing where when I discover something new, it’s the only thing I talk about/think about/go to. Graft is that place for me right now. It’s a retail wine store that turns into a wine bar at fiveish. They have incredible wines, obviously, but also a really great snack selection (pimento cheese and chips, anchovies, funky cheeses) and an always good playlist. I have been very into Pet Nats lately which are naturally sparkling wines, bubbly like champagne or prosecco but not in an aggressive, carbonated way. My current favorite is the Voria from Italy. It’s a little acidic, makes my mouth water, a little pear-y. I have never been a big wine drinker and as you might recall I have the least sophisticated taste buds of all time but over the past year it’s been nice to try wines from different places. I love the idea of terroir, the total sum of the landscape where grapes are harvested— not just the soil but the salt in the air, how quickly things grow. It’s a relief to have a glass of wine from California or France and remember that there are other places in the world, that soon, maybe, we’ll get to taste new things in new places. Also, Pet Nat is naturally fermented unlike most champagne (I’ll admit it, I’ve had my fair share of Andre from the Walgreens in Five Points) so it doesn’t give me wine hangovers which might also be why I’m so into it right now.
love you
Hope your weekend was just lovely and I really hope that your Sunday is full of peanut butter and banana toast, an iced oat milk latte from the Harbinger, something with blueberries on it, peanut m&ms from the freezer, a giant salad with strawberries and goat cheese and some kind of balsamic-y dressing, an impulse sprite from the checkout line at Harris Teeter, or maybe all of the above? Love you get your vaccine see you soon!