John Kessler

Wine quiz

I recently spent two solid days of reviewing the world winemaking regions and the coarser points of wine service in a series offered by the Court of Master Sommeliers. I made a sample quiz based on the course’s study questions. If you like the grape, take a shot at it. You can find it on the Food and More blog.

Jenny Turknett

New chef at the Mill

Benjamin Castro has been appointed executive chef at the Mill Kitchen & Bar in Roswell. This Athens native and CIA-trained chef has worked with Hector Santiago at Pura Vida and Doug Turbush at Bluepointe. Castro says he immediately identified the consistency issues at the Mill and is working to get the kitchen refocused and to correct “bad habits.”

Jon Watson

Cooking with gloves

When I’m cooking, there are really only two situations in which I don gloves: cutting super-hot peppers or if I’m handling a single large piece of meat for an extended period of time. In many respects, freshly washed hands are safer, as the chef’s awareness of when his hands are clean is much higher.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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