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Twelve blues songs on a new CD that are also recipes for down-home dishes....
Blues Cookbook

We have a lot to learn from beer, even if we never drink any of it....
Beer as a metaphor for human growth

Some cantaloupe basics, from Style Gourmet Morsels....
Cantaloupe: It's Really a Muskmelon

Clever simple machine allows uniform tenderizing, flattening and marinating of meats....
Mister Tenderizer

Edward Giobbi and Eugenia Giobbi Bone give us inspired guidance for seasonal family dining following time-honored Italian traditions....
Italian Family Dining

Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Organic, from the Cordoba province of Andalucia in southern Spain....
Nunez de Prado Spanish Olive Oil

Baking advice only for the higher-ups....
Baking At Altitude

Secret ingredient with uses sweet and savory....
Frozen Puff Pastry

Recipes for soups that beat the heat....
Cold Summer Soups

Turophilia proclaimed by one of the experts....
The Cheese Primer

You probably already know that most states, much to many wineries' consternation, ban the direct shipping of wine to consumers. As of Thursday, Michigan is no longer on that list. December 15th saw Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signing a bill...
Michigan Grapes Finally Freed

In the last thirty years there has been a fiery debate about the future of corks and what to do about cork-taint. Natural corks often contain a contaminant called TCA, which changes the flavor of a wine drastically and reduces the desirability of a f...
Cork and the Cork Alternatives

Whether the result of the manifest destiny archetype that seems to be burned into their collective minds or the sheer primal urge to make things bigger, Americans have a unique and peculiar logic that permeates through everything they do: Why drive a...
It's Not California Wine if it's Not Breaking the Rules

In an effort to make the process less of a mess and more fun for those unmoved with the prospect of memorizing a pocket dictionary worth of French, Italian, Spanish and German wine terms, here is a list of the top ten things to look for on a wine lab...
The Ten Most Important Wine Label Terms

Some grapes are well-traveled. Over thousands of years, varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and even the fussy Pinot Noir have garnered their sea legs, making their way around the globe like intrepid explorers looking for n...
Wines of Piedmont

Okay, the cat's out of the bag: wine is good for you. With 5th century Italian monks as inspiration and double blind clinical studies as proof, modern medicine has accepted that the benefits to drinking a moderate amount of wine on a regular basis fa...
Where the Health Benefits of Wine Tip to Health Risks

Australian wine fans may have noted over the last several years that some of the gold, silver and bronze stickers that adorn an Aussie wine label brag about awards that seem at best bizarre and at worst totally suspect. Finding a wine that was a gold...
Award Winning Wines That Actually Won Something

The French are in a pickle. Only in France would wine lobbyists turn to terrorism and throw sticks of dynamite into the agriculture ministry offices in Montpellier and Carcassonne. The French government is concerned that a mass demonstration by produ...
Overcomplicating the Simple Mystery of Wine

For those of you who haven't been living in a discount warehouse seclusion bubble for the last ten years, it comes as no surprise that Wal-Mart is strategizing how to make-up for ground lost to Costco over wine sales. Costco is and has been the large...
Sam's Club Guns for its Own Angle on Costco's Wine Monopoly

Each year, it is not uncommon for Italy to find itself at the top of a number of wine-related lists, not the least of which ranks it as the largest producer, exporter and consumer of wine in the world....
Introduction to Italian Wine

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: C1-C1....
Cover

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: i-ii....
Table of Contents

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: iii-iv....
Fusing Culture, Fusing Cuisine

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: v-vi....
Contributors

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 1-5....
Rumblings from the World of Food

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 6-7....
Boning Up on Language

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 8-14....
Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 15-15....
fatted

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 16-19....
Envy's Sweet Origin

Gastronomica Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4: 20-24....
Fulton Street Fish Market



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