by admin | May 25, 2014 | Blog
n Last week the Master’s Exam in Aspen concluded after four days with five individuals named as new Master Sommeliers. Before going further, I want to congratulate them: Alexander LaPratt of Atrium in Brooklyn, Pascaline Lepeltier of Rouge Tomate in New York, Andrew...
by admin | May 15, 2014 | Blog
n Twenty years before publishing the theory of relativity Einstein first imagined himself riding on a beam of light. In Ron Suskind’s recent book, “Life, Animated,” he and his wife Cornelia were only able to begin communicating with their autistic son Owen by using...
by admin | May 6, 2014 | Blog
n www.plutoidsinfo.com My first grade teacher, Mrs. Barwin, was a kind caring woman. She ended up being the calm eye in a hurricane of scary-ass nuns that would begin just the next year in second grade with the cruelest, most sadistic nun of them all—Sister Peter...
by admin | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog
n One of the keys to tasting be it for pleasure or profession is olfactory memory. The good news is that we’re born with all the necessary hardware for it. We develop our smell memory, largely at the unconscious level, over a lifetime. Professional tasting carries...
by admin | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
n www.kirstymitchell.com The Photography of Kirsty MitchellI came across Kirsty Mitchell’s work not long ago and was completely amazed. The U.K.-born Mitchell initially studied art history, photography, and fine art in London going on to train in performance costume...
by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Blog
n Good friend Doug Frost is the second among only five people in the world to have passed both the Master Sommelier and Master of Wine exams. Author of several books, including “Uncorking Wine,” “On Wine,” and “Far From Ordinary: The...
