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**dolaBeetCeage** · 10-10-2009, 11:54 AM

I did not vote in your poll. I like sake a lot, but the most wonderful drink is a tossup between a good amber ale or a well made margarita.

Good sake has nothing at all to do with "trying to be Japanese", and I actually find that pretty insulting. Sake is rice wine, and shares very many of wines nuances of flavor and boquet. There are numerous websites devoted to sake. (John Gauntner's Sake World is a good one ... http://www.sake-world.com/html/best-sake-picks.html )

I know an awful lot of people that adore good wine (I much prefer a good sake myself) but you wouldn't think they are trying to be French. However, if you were attending a class in French cuisine, and you brought in several instructors from France, you would most certainly include several types of French wine at the festivities. Not because you were trying to be French, but because it fits with the theme, even though the French instructors may prefer to drink the Scotch that was there.

Just my two cent's worth on it.

10-10-2009, 11:54 AM	#2
dolaBeetCeage Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 675 Senior Member	I did not vote in your poll. I like sake a lot, but the most wonderful drink is a tossup between a good amber ale or a well made margarita. Good sake has nothing at all to do with "trying to be Japanese", and I actually find that pretty insulting. Sake is rice wine, and shares very many of wines nuances of flavor and boquet. There are numerous websites devoted to sake. (John Gauntner's Sake World is a good one ... http://www.sake-world.com/html/best-sake-picks.html ) I know an awful lot of people that adore good wine (I much prefer a good sake myself) but you wouldn't think they are trying to be French. However, if you were attending a class in French cuisine, and you brought in several instructors from France, you would most certainly include several types of French wine at the festivities. Not because you were trying to be French, but because it fits with the theme, even though the French instructors may prefer to drink the Scotch that was there. Just my two cent's worth on it.
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