Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
For almost 20 years now I’ve been reading (and writing) invitations to events that inform that the event’s dress code is “Wine Country Casual”. But there’s a problem with this: I don’t know exactly what “Wine Country Casual” means from a fashion perspective. All I know for sure about this mysterious dress code is that it instructs attendees to events that formality in their dress is not required. But in thinking about this dress code, I may have figured out…
I've been thinking about "Wine Porn" (not for any good reason) and have concluded there really isn't anything we can call "Wine Porn" that comes close to the titillating exposure we have to honest to goodness "Food Porn". Wikipedia is kind enough to offer a pretty decent, though limiting, explanation of "Food Porn": "Food porn is a sarcastic term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media, food…
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I wish I knew more about civil lawsuits. If I did I might be able to understand just exactly how the restaurant chain Denny's could possibly be held responsible and even punished for disclosing that there is lots of salt in their food. This is exactly what they are facing. I understand, kind of how MacDonald's could be be sued for giving scalding coffee to drivers who, if they spilled it, could seriously hurt themselves. We are talking about an…
I read recently that the most popular dog breed in France is the Poodle. Here in the U.S. it is the Labrador Retriever. This difference alone isn't quite enough to force Americans to be suspicious of the French. But it makes you think. We (wine lovers) should also be forced to think about the French today, on the day of their national celebration of their Republic: Bastille Day. There's no denying that the American wine industry in its modern form…
