Interesting article on Serious Eats about corks v. screw caps on wine bottles. Altho I can understand why wine fans (or wine snobs, depending on how you look at it) would get really attached to all the custom and ritual that center around corks. And maybe if I was spending bigger bucks on wine, I might feel differently. Because it really is all about custom and habit and what other people will/might think. I'm actually pretty contrarian and prefer screw-cap bottles if I can find them. Three Thieves, which I've talked about previously, has wonderful wines in screw-cap jugs. And one of my favorite Veitliners also has a cap not a cork. The article doesn't mention it but I heard a few years ago that most Australian and New Zealand wines don't use corks because it's so incredibly expensive to ship cork all the way out there.
Also in food news, my review of Southern Kitchen finally got posted at Roadfood. I actually felt bad about posting such a negative review but we had such a bad experience there that I just had to say something.