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March 29, 2009 11:51 AM UTC --
Those of us who love our wine and beer sometimes spend a lot of mental and
emotional energy choreographing our intake. Sometimes we are
faced-on the next morning, let’s say- with questions about . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:26 AM UTC --
When it's time to pour something to go with shrimp, most of us call for a brightly acidic white. Since there are so many of those available, it's particularly easy to come up with something novel . . .
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February 29, 2008 10:03 AM UTC --
In my home town, a lot of people get their news from a single, out-of-town newspaper. Those Philadelphians often turn to blogs or radio for their sports news and to The Broad Street Review for news of . . .
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February 22, 2008 01:17 PM UTC --
Like a lot of Big City, Trade Union, Anti-Gun Democrats, I've gone from smug about our party's chances to nervous about the possibility of it tearing itself apart before Election Day. The debate . . .
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February 15, 2008 10:08 PM UTC --
Deep in the middle of the novel bang BANG, there's this guy Cardoso. He's not really in the center of the action, but until he is, we watch him cook a seductive dinner for the woman of his dreams. . . .
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February 13, 2008 05:18 PM UTC --
Sake, as I'm sure you know, is a drink made from rice. The brewing process uses an starch-breaking enzyme in tandem with the fermenting yeast. A cépage is a blend- a mixture of two . . .
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February 01, 2008 04:31 PM UTC --
A lot of space in various journals has been devoted to defending The Elements of Style Illustrated against Yagoda's abrupt dismissal. Fair enough. Anyone who's ever read undergraduate prose in . . .
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February 01, 2008 12:10 PM UTC --
Back in 2001, a museum of Caricature was built by Viennese architect Gustav Peichl in the little town of Krems, about an hour outside of Vienna. Peichl,also known as cartoonist Ironimus, must have had . . .
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January 30, 2008 10:50 PM UTC --
Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America by Thomas Ferraro
I found it a bit difficult to read the academic . . .
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January 30, 2008 10:43 PM UTC --
A few decades ago, someone discovered that at least a third of all cookbook reading was done in bed. The discovery led to a whole new genre: food books that never have olive oil stains or tomato paste . . .
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January 30, 2008 10:15 PM UTC --
New Orleans, Mon Amour
You may have heard Andrea Codrescu on NPR. He's the sad-voiced European whose short essays manage to be incredibly emotional and marvelously . . .
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January 30, 2008 05:42 PM UTC --
This was my second reading of Nadja. The first time, I read it looking for fiction inspired by cities. I expected, and found, a story about Paris. The narrator's mad desire for Nadja who is herself . . .
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January 30, 2008 02:43 PM UTC --
Women of Magdalene is a gripping drama about the power that men once had over women. The story-set in an asylum in the Post-War South-is eerie and tense and brimming with tensions sexual and otherwise. . . .
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January 30, 2008 02:20 PM UTC --
There's this dress designer named Vera Wang. She designs some pretty hot evening gowns. As far as I can tell, she understands the human body and does a lovely job of clothing it. Sadly, in trying to . . .
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January 30, 2008 02:16 PM UTC --
This is a strange movie for a typical foodie. When it first hit the theatres, Supersize me had an oddly revolting effect. I'm told that sales of candy and popcorn declined when it was shown and two . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:59 PM UTC --
Pedro Almodovar has a bone to pick with the repressive Spain of his youth. He does it through the story of Ignacio and Enrique. These two kids have a boyish crush on each other and their feelings . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:40 PM UTC --
Every once in a while, a movie is made that's just too smart for its time. The Scalphunters is certainly an example. This terribly misunderstood movie suffers from its refusal to fully subscribe to . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:25 PM UTC --
We have had a few TV shows about the chef as artist. There's even been a wonderful little movie about the chef as unlikely mom (Mostly Martha). But here is a wonderful ugly duckling/cyrano de bergerac . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:14 PM UTC --
There are lots of people who use the phrase `the full monty' who have never heard of, much less seen the witty, low-key film that popularized the expression. To 'go the full monty' means `to . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:14 AM UTC --
Here's a pleasant surprise: a grape that has always been known for the quantity of its harvet finally comes through with some quality. It's sort of like discovering that your jerky cousin . . .
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