Think Inside the Box
Wine in a box = college dorm. Not anymore. Wine marketers are battling our preconceived idea that wine in a bottle is better than in a box, and that wine with a cork is better than with a screwtop.
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French Bliss: Glaces Berthillon
Even when it was snowy, windy and blustery last December, my daughter knew it was worth the wait to get the acknowledged best ice cream in Paris. Glaces Berthillon has a half-dozen storefronts on Ile Saint Louis, the little island on the Seine near Notre Dame, plus dozens of outlets all over the City of…
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Making It Big
It’s seldom that reality TV has any effect on me these days. So when I happened upon the show “Making It Big’ on the Life Network I was shocked how captivating it was. There were 3 chefs competing for the grand prize of an apprenticeship with famed New York chef Daniel Boulud and enrollment in…
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Opportunities in Fair Trade
Some regions of the new world are growing their foreign sales benefiting from lower prices and good quality. However, the first wave of the bonanza has reached the main producers but not the smaller vineyards. Fair trade efforts may just rectify this situation? via [Herald.com]
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More on Direct Shipping
Here’s further insight into the matter of direct shipping. I must say that, as a wine consumer, I am pro-choice. The more choices I have, the more the outlets have to compete for my business. Better quality, lower prices (at least in theory). via [Fermentations]
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What’s For Dinner? Supperclub
It’s a club. It’s a restaurant. It’s a catering hall. It’s a gallery. It’s a performance space. And it’s even got beds to lounge on while you watch the hippest of the hip. What the heck is it? It’s known in Europe as Supperclub. Already an institution in Amsterdam, Rome, and on location with refurbished…
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A Million-Dollar-Baby Has Been Restored in Macau
This particular baby is a collection of 1961 Bordeaux (500 bottles in all) belonging to a Chinese magnate who keeps it under safegard in his hotel in the island of Macau… French experts were called on site because the bottles needed recorking! French wine experts in Macau recork million-dollar batch of rare Bordeaux – Yahoo!…
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Is Texas Finally Joining The 21st Century?
If you are a resident of Texas and you wanted to buy your wine from…let’s say, oh well …California (gasp) it was a no-can-do situation.
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Art, Music and Massage: McMenamins Grand Lodge, Oregon
Tired of the same old hotel room with a television and empty walls to keep you pacified in your free time? In McMenamins Grand Lodge in Forest Grove, Oregon, not one room has a television, and not one wall is free of original artwork. The lodge was built in 1922 as a Masonic and Eastern…
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Individual Shepherd’s Pies
Mashed potato lovers unite. There are fewer dishes more comforting, more scrumptious and easier to make than shepherd’s pie. Shepherd’s pie is one of those nursery food stand-by’s, equally at home in a large, “feed-the-forces” baking dish as in more elegant (and practical) individual casseroles (I love the Emile Henri miniature oven dishes – they’re…
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Superb Snorkeling Site: Stingray City
Sting Ray City didn’t exist when I visited Grand Cayman in the early 1980s. A decade later, a vacationing Detroit cop started feeding the school of friendly stingrays who hung out in the North Sound during his annual visits to the island. Soon, with 100-foot visibility (or more), 80+degree water temperatures, easy access by a…
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Drinking Styles of the Rich and Famous
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to be able to buy anything you want? Do you ever fantasize about what kind of spectacular wine the rich may be pouring at their tables? Read this article, then, and you may be suprised at how affordable it can be to drink in style. via…