Soleil Ho, the former SF Chronicle restaurant critic, attended one of my Water Tasting Classes in San Francisco and wrote up an awesome review of it for Coyote Media.
The class was a particularly fun session, with two very opinionated bartenders in attendance.
I don’t usually consider water in my daily life. I drink good ol’ tap water to wash down medication, hydrate during a hike; if I’m feeling wild, I’ll toss in an electrolyte tablet. Any emotional attachment I might feel to water has to do with context: the bracing quality of a cold, 20-peso Mineragua on a humid tropical afternoon, or the glass of room-temperature tap that I grab when I randomly wake up at 3am. I’m probably not the only person who looks at the ever-expanding array of branded bottles of water on grocery store shelves and thinks it’s all a scam.
But that Tuesday night, I set aside my cynicism and tasted 19 different types of drinking water: still and sparkling, artesian well and tap, local and imported from far, far away.
And you know what? He convinced me, once and for all, that being a water nerd is a completely rational behavior.
Read the whole story here, and join me for a water tasting class sometime!
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