Vine Talk
Wine has been a hobby of mine for many years. I drink a glass or two, either at lunch or dinner about 350 days a year, have written a column about wine for the Ithaca Journal for a half-dozen years,...
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Saturday February 19th, the wind in Ithaca was blowing so strong that the downtown Chili Festival had to be postponed. I have been judging the contest for several years and fortunately, I was able to...
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Restaurant Pet Peeves
“Are youse guys ready to order?” These were the first words my friends and I heard after we were seated at our table for a recent lunch. Perhaps I’m being overly demanding but I actually prefer to be...
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Please With Cheese
Recently, as I wrote an article about pairing wine with cheese, I realized that Americans, in general, are not as familiar with serving cheese as many Europeans, and I thought it would be helpful to...
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Wine and Health
How would you like to live forever, be young in mind and body, think more clearly, develop better motor skills, fend off Alzheimer’s disease and many cancers, and never develop cataracts or suffer a...
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Diet and Disease
I was shocked to learn that rates of heart disease are 10 times higher in northern Europe than in southern Europe – and that rates of the same types of cancers vary as much as tenfold around the world....
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