Marijuana sommeliers are the future of high-class eating
Finally the worlds of marijuana and fine dining have collided in a delicious (and some would say appetite-enhancing) way.
Bloomberg reports that Colorado-based Cultivating Spirits, a cannabis tour and event company, has a verbal commitment for a $400,000 investment and wants to help you plan your next elegant cannabis-focused fine dining event.
Cultivating Spirits' founder Philip Wolf is one of the nation's first accredited cannabis sommelier, with "interpening" training from Denver's Trichome Institute. The school's website says, "Interpening™ is a method used to identify and understand cannabis variety, based on interpreting the plant’s terpenes and flower structure."
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Wolf wants his cannabis pairing (a three-course meal with fine wine, food and cannabis for 10 people starts at $1,250) to enhance food and wine, not compete with it. He thinks of cannabis as a "third layer" of flavor and each strain of marijuana is carefully paired to complement the gourmet ingredients and wines that comprise each course.
The company also organizes bachelor and bachelorette parties, holiday parties and events at the company's own eatery.
If you're in Colorado with a hankering for Gorilla Glue with a side of ribeye steak, consider your prayers answered.
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Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.
