SEATTLE -- Another criminal enterprise brought to its knees.

Well, sorta, kinda, maybe criminal.

I mean, it's not like they were serving a pinot grigio with red meat.

So, would a representative of the State Liquor Control Board please put a cork in it and come on down?

Last month, an agent for the liquor police swept in to a cooking school on Seattle's Beacon Hill.

Responding to an anonymous complaint, the agent was there to verify that the school was actually cooking with wine and that would-be chefs were known to sip wine while being taught the culinary arts.

All that without a proper liquor license.

Oh wait, there is no liquor license available for cooking schools.

Which means the owners of Culinary Communion must now spend an estimated $10,000 to become something 'like' a restaurant or a beer and wine shop before even thinking of cooking with wine again.

So, for being overzealous and overbearing; for killing the alfredo sauce along with the beef with burgundy mushrooms, here's a toast to the liquor control board, because this "Schrammie" is for you.

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