Most of the classic wine and cheese pairings and some very interesting ones. Cheese tasting notes from someone attending the Artisanal Cheese Center in New York City.
Entries from August 2009
Wine and cheese, cheese and wine, and cheese tasting notes.
August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Food and Wine
Tagged: Artisanal Cheese Center, cheese, food pairing, New York, tasting notes, wine
Cutting cheeses, $1 million wine book, and The Shard.
August 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The art of cutting cheeses. Would you pay ONE MILLION dollars for a book? What if it comes with 600 bottles of wine? Renzo Piano’s “Shard” in London.
Categories: Architecture and Design · Culture and Events · Food and Wine
Tagged: architecture, book, cheeses, one million dollars, Renzo Piano, Shard, wine
Butter, basterds, and breast implants.
August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
THE butter page. Ebert’s review for Tarantino’s last movie. What can you learn from a breast implant?
Categories: Culture and Events · Food and Wine · Movies, Literature and Quotes
Tagged: Brad Pitt, breast implant. homicide, butter, celebrity, crime, detective, Ebert, food, investigation, movies, murder, Tarantino
Internet country codes, bad promotional stunts, and salaries.
August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The world’s first map of internet country codes. Promotional stunts that backfired. Wanna get REAALY depressed? Compare your annual salary against Eli Manning’s.
Categories: Cartography, Typography and Illustration · Culture and Events · Technology and Software
Tagged: ads, advertising, Eli Manning, football, Internet country codes, maps, money, promo, salary
Blackberry or iphone, infected websites, and all you can fly.
August 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Are you a Blackberry or an iPhone? The trop 100 virus-infected websites. What an honor! Jet Blue’s “all you can jet” pass is making some people kinda nuts.
Categories: Technology and Software
Tagged: airline, business, cell, IT, Jet Blue, pass, phone, Technology and Software, Travel
New Orleans, websites, and the tallest building.
August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
New Orleans, four years later. The 50 Best Websites in 2009, according to Time Magazine. The world’s tallest wooden building will be build in Norway. Cool!
Categories: Architecture and Design · Culture and Events · Environmental Issues · News and Politics · Technology and Software · Travel
Tagged: Architecture and Design, best websites, city planning, crime, New Orleans, Norway, recovery, Time, tourism, urban planning, wooden, world's tallest
Plastic wine bottles, wine stereotypes, and ads on blogs.
August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yeap. Plastic wine bottles are here, and they will stay. Breaking the wine stereotypes. The F.T.C. is close to updating its guidelines on endorsements and testimonials for the first time since 1980.
Categories: Culture and Events · Food and Wine · Technology and Software
Tagged: ads, blogs, controversy, endorsements and testimonials, glass, plastic wine bottles, wine, wine stereotypes
Mona Lisa, meteors, and Caffeine.
August 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A crazy Russian woman throws a cup at the Mona Lisa. Cool meteors pictures, and the new Google’s search engine, Caffeine.
Categories: Culture and Events · Environmental Issues · News and Politics · Photography · Technology and Software
Tagged: astronomy, Caffeine, France, google, internet, meteors, Mona Lisa, museums, night photography, Paris, Photography, russian, search engine, Technology and Software, vandalism
Nukes, Britney Spears, and iPhone checks.
August 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
How many nukes are needed to destroy humanity? Wow! This is how Britney Spears really sounds like on stage. This truly brings hope to everybody! Need to deposit a check? Take two pictures and hit send.
Categories: Cartography, Typography and Illustration · Culture and Events · Environmental Issues · Music · News and Politics · Photography · Technology and Software
Tagged: atomic bomb, bank deposit, Britney Spears, concert, graphs, humanity, iphone, live, paperless transactions, sound, Technology and Software, war, world
Sugar, wine, oxygen, and a bald penguin.
August 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Large U.S. food companies said the country could “virtually run out of sugar” unless the Obama administration eased import curbs. What we know about oxygen and wine. A bald penguin is given a wetsuit to prevent sunburn. Awesome!
Categories: Environmental Issues · Food and Wine · News and Politics
Tagged: bald penguin, bottle, cork, economy, exports, food, imports, Obama, oxygen, recession, sugar, wetsuit, wine



