This post marks my last contribution to the Snooth blog. Time is getting away from me and in order to catch up with it, I'm going to set it free and see if it returns. I love you all, but as even the shortest blogs can take obsessive writers the longest time to write (I know, surprise!), I'm downsizing in hopes that I will be more capable of focusing on other areas of my life.

Such as the cheese and wine book I'm writing. Or contemplating writing. Or saying that I'm writing so that I can get a tax write-off on cheese and wine.

In closing, for my last post, I want to invite Snooth bloggers to visit me at my blog, Vindelatable.blogspot.com. I'll be there, writing about the glories, silliness and deliciousness of wine and food pairings. Please visit.

But more than that, I'd like to officially invite you all to join me in a monthly event that I will be hosting on Vindelatable.blogspot.com. I'm kicking off a blogging event called Making Cheese and Drinking Wine, set to post on the last Friday of every month, starting November. Every month, I'm going to pick a recipe for a cheese or dairy good from The Home Creamery book, by Kathy Farfell-Kingsley, and participants can join me in making the recipe. After making the recipe (here's the Vin de la Table hook), participants pair their unique creation with a wine of their choice.

There are no limitations. A said Jane Doe could focus entirely on pairing the fresh cheese with a delicious wine, or could whip the cheese into a lasagna, pair it with Larkmead Firebelle, or make a cheesecake with it and pair it with a sparkling muscat, or arrange the cheese so it spells out "I Love Vin de la Table", and then pair it with a Didier Dagneau Sauvignon Blanc. Whatever she desires.

The original post with more details proclaiming the event can be found here: http://vindelatable.blogspot.com/2008/09/home-creamery-event-making-cheese.html . I'll announce the first recipe mid-November (because I'll be in Italy for the first two weeks- first time!!!!!!). I hope to see some of you there and will expect to be sent cheese samples, Fed-Ex, overnight, by all of you.

Thank you for reading my writing, leaving comments, and for writing posts yourselves that will inspire me to come back to Snooth long after I've left.

Cheers,
Kirstin

Kirstin Jackson Ellis works as a wine bar manager and wine and food consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about wine and food pairing at Vin de La Table, her luxurious and lighthearted blog.