by Kim Hartmann | Oct 28, 2015 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
Some people say the study of wine is an art. Others say it’s a science. To Nick Domanico, owner of Tapas Calpe in Cary, Illinois, wine is much more. “Studying wine is kind of like studying theology,” he explained to me in a recent interview. “It’s not like studying...
by Jan Ross | Oct 24, 2015 | Food, Food blog
There is a long list of reasons why you should visit the amazing Adventures on the Gorge. Located in the startlingly beautiful New River Gorge in the Appalachian Mountains of southern West Virginia, which is part of the New River Gorge National Park, it’s not only in...
by Will Ottley | Oct 22, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Will Ottley visits the French City of Bordeaux and discovers exemplary organic wine. Bordeaux became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007. Synonymous with the French wine trade, the city has 376 listed monuments dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Bordeaux...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 21, 2015 | Food, Food blog
In the last scene of Billy Wilder’s 1959 American comedy film, “Some Like it Hot”, starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis, Jerry played by Jack Lemmon gives a long list of reasons to Osgood played by Joe E. Brown why they can’t marry. Osgood dismisses...
by Lisa Richardson | Oct 16, 2015 | Food, Food blog
“Coastal Italian” is an inviting descriptor for the restaurant on the top floor at Wall and Girard. So I went twice. Initially, we were a group of journalists hosted for Saturday lunch at Catania. The streets were blocked off for the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival. ...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 7, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
It is impossible to feel lukewarm about Venice. The historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, complained about “its stinking ditches dignified with the pompous denomination of canals, while novelist D.H. Lawrence called her an...
by Lisa Richardson | Oct 6, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
It’s not as though I was surprised those three days in Carmel-by-the-Sea were so pleasurable. How surely this one square mile penetrated my psyche was the zinger. Homebound along the Salinas Highway, smiling at the fog as it tended the vines in the Highlands beyond,...
by Jan Ross | Oct 6, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
There is a lot to enjoy in the charming small town of Racine, Wisconsin. Located on the shore of beautiful Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Chicago, Racine has lovely beaches, parks and trails; Frank Lloyd Wright architecture; an amazing art museum; zoo; and the...
by Scott W. Clemens | Oct 6, 2015 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog, Wine Reviews
Every year for the past 13 years Barbara Drady, of Affairs of the Vine, has been organizing the Pinot Noir Shootout and subsequent Pinot Noir Summit. The Shootout is not one event, but a series of blind tastings held over several months in which professional wine...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 4, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Born in Castelrotto on December 27, 1914, Zenzi Glatt came to live in Merano when she was 10 years old because of its better schools and has lived here ever since. She is a pioneer of hospitality. In 1948 she opened Pension Mignon and soon opened up a beauty...
by Connie Pearson | Oct 1, 2015 | Food, Food blog
Step inside the door, and you will feel like distant cousins arriving for a much-anticipated family reunion. Momma and her helpers stir, sauté, and ladle in the kitchen. Papa smiles, greets, and oversees the smooth operation. Sons, cousins, and uncles wait tables...
