I have been drinking and enjoying the wines a San Felice for a many years. Owned by the Grisaldi del Taja family from 1700 to 1968, the estate was acquired by the Allianza Group in the 1970’s, Today it spans about 685 hectares acrossTuscany’s prestigious wine producingareas: Chianti C...
One of them wasR. Buckminster Fuller(1895–1983), architect, designer, and futurist probably best known today as the inventor of the geodesic dome (think Disney’s Epcot Center). In the 1930s Fuller was all about a concept he called Dymaxion. Derived from the words dynamic, maximum, and ...
In 2000, comedian/musician Richard Cheese released the first of his albums, Lounge Against The Machine, which took popular (and often explicit) rock and metal songs and performed them in a swing manner. It was so successful that Cheese (real name Mark Davis) has been able to build a ...
A titter followed this announcement, and before it had subsided James brought up 'the tray,' containing the remains of a leg of lamb which had made its début at dinner; bread; cheese; an atom of butter in a forest of parsley; one pickled walnut and the third of another; and so forth...
began to make jokes and laugh at the car. Someone said it was so small that a three liter bottle of Alfredo’s wine could not fit in the driver’s seat. A few days later when we were leaving, I opened the door to the car and behind the steering wheel was a three liter bottle of...
He said that I’d have to take a “bajaj”, little three wheel carts or rickshaw, because it was around 2km away. He found a driver and had to beat off some of the other kids who were trying to help with my luggage. I paid the guy $3 and thanked him for helping me out. He...
And then, indeed, the stir and excitement begin. The sap-buckets, which have been stored in the garret over the wood-house, and which the boy has occasionally climbed up to look at with another boy, for they are full of sweet suggestions of the annual spring frolic,–the sap-buckets ar...
He was always intelligently busy, and had the Yankee ingenuity,–he “could do anything but spin,” he used to say to the girls of Coventry, laughing over the spinning wheel. There is a universal testimony to his alert intelligence, vivacity, manliness, sincerity, and winningness. It is ...
It was so with all of us, but with no one more than Drummle: the development of whose inclination to gird in a grudging and suspicious way at the rest, was screwed out of him before the fish was taken off. It was not then, but when we had got to the cheese, that our ...
in the cheese industry, compression of curd into rectangular molds produces slabs of constant cross section but inconsistent lengths. Thereafter, when the slabs are cut to form smaller pieces of known weights for packaging, invariably, pieces are produced from the end cut which are not thick enoug...