It's the taste that counts, not the name.
Byline: Reshmi R Dasgupta There are many confusing things in the world of wine, but none more so than the names of the grapes and the names of the wines - which often sound quite like each other. Much of the blame, of course, can be laid...

Where will your heart, body and soul be this May?
If you're passionate about travel, intrigued by river cruising, and inspired by all things French, imagine yourself gliding down the Saone and Rhone rivers on a culinary and cultural cruise with Burt Wolf, host of the public television series, Travels & Traditions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION...

Bridging the gap at La Tene.
Some thirty years ago, I took part in the Seminar fur Ur- und Fruhgeschichte der Universitat Basel's traditional field trip to La Tene. We discussed the various interpretations put forward for a site that had given its name to the later Iron Age in Europe: bridges, toll, battle, fort,...

Labor of love: the idyllic vineyards and vistas of Northern California's wine country inspire a dream house built against the odds.
FIVE MINUTES into their first conversation, Andy Katz and Ellen Riendeau knew they were destined to be a couple. "I told him my dream was to live in Sonoma County," Riendeau says of that fortuitous encounter at a Christmas party in Colorado, where they both lived. "And he said,...

Fine Wine and Terroir: The Geoscience Perspective.
Fine Wine and Terroir: The Geoscience Perspective Edited by R.W. Macqueen and L.D. Meinert Geological Association of Canada Geoscience Canada Reprint Series 9, 2006 ISBN-13:978-1-897095-21-8 ISSN: 0821-381X Price: $49.95; member price $37.46 Hardcover-266p. There is an apocryphal story that many readers may have...

Hold the oak: look for lighter, crisper Chardonnays in the market.
A GLASS OF West Coast Chardonnay conjures a taste memory of butterscotch, vanilla, and toast. Ironically, those flavors have nothing to do with Chardonnay and everything to do with what's been done to it. "Chardonnay is the winemaker's grape," says Alan Phillips, winemaker and general manager for Foley Estates...

The history con.
THE NOTION that history books tell THE TRUTH, meaning the actual what, when, where, why, how, and who of a past event is pure con. They can't. Now I'm not talking about the kind of history book that's nothing more than a list of past events presented...

Val E. Szemetun, 58.
WORCESTER Val E. Szemetun, 58, of Worcester, died Wednesday, August 22nd in the Rose Monahan Hospice Residence, 10 Judith Rd. He leaves a niece, Tatiana Ciccone and a brother-in-law, Pasquale Ciccone both of West Hollywood, CA., and many friends. He was predeceased by a sister, Ludmilla Szemetun....

Ludmilla "Lucy" Szemetun, 51.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA Ludmilla Lucy Szemetun, 51, of West Hollywood, CA, died Tuesday, June 19, in Worcester, MA. She leaves her husband, Pasquale Ciccone, and a daughter, Tatiana Ciccone, both of West Hollywood, CA. She also leaves a brother Val Szemetun of Worcester, MA. Ms. Szemetun was...

Spatial analysis of employment and population density: the case of the agglomeration of Dijon 1999.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the intraurban spatial distributions of population and employment in the agglomeration of Dijon (regional capital of Burgundy, France). We study whether this agglomeration has followed the general tendency of job decentralization observed in most urban areas or whether it is still...