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Sunday, August 30, 2015

A summer night in a backwater berth in Ohio where dining in America was transformed

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T he view from the Lagoons at Vermilion, Ohio is a bit intimidating. Sheltered from Lake Eyrie, this bedroom community of Cleveland is one...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

The End of Summer Vacation ~ The Beginning of Autumn Harvest

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I t happens like this every year. It’s been a great month at the beach. Now we must pack up our belongings, shut down the cabana and head ba...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

A World Beyond Wine Blogging ~ Musings on a Ferragosto Evening

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(L-R) Louis, Alfonso, Mary & Julia Cevola - Palermo ca. 1919 I ’m stealing time right now. There’s a 2,100 word, multi-segment piece...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

TEXSOM through the ages

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T EXSOM and On the Wine Trail in Italy have something in common - we both started about the same time - and hopefully those who noticed s...
Sunday, August 02, 2015

Italy and their Wine Debt to France

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Photograph by Pierre Jahan/Archives des museés nationaux F or as long as I can remember there have been oblique encounters between Italo...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Sardegna and wine - a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

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B y chance, I’m sitting in a restaurant and nearby me is a table of four. Urban dwellers, well-traveled, by the looks of their garb and li...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hidden Calabria and the dawn of a new day

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F eral, untouched, wild, unknown – Calabria is a wine frontier. Long passed over by wine connoisseurs in favor of Piedmont and Tuscany, Ca...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

The California Drought Report: Déjà vu and other ramblings while driving on the Silverado Trail at midnight.

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I t was déjà vu. The tinderbox conditions we were sitting in must have made it seem like it. It was an early summer night, just like befor...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

A little bit of Americana for our friends in Italy

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A pictorial journey through West Texas on July 4th weekend T hree weeks ago, I was sitting in a basement in Bari judging Italian wine ma...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Lucania ~ As I See It

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From the Radici del Sud notebook F orget anything you know about Basilicata and Southern Italy. Disregard anyone telling you this is the...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Radici del Sud ~ An Emotional Pilgrimage to One’s Origins

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One soul's radical search for the ideal on an imbalanced planet  Bucita, Calabria ~ 1977 Do you have a lifelong quest? What about l...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Master Class in Indigenous Wines ~ As Taught by a Donkey, a Rooster and the Spirit of Place

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T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with creatures other than humans. M...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

What the World Needs Now is Passerina, Sweet #Passerina

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R ome, if anything, is a mirror of all that is good and bad in the world. From my first trip here, in 1971, and with all the times I have ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Death of a Loved One

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From the "not quite back on the wine trail, yet" dept. I n a world where there are so many tragic events  ̶  from the father ...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

On turning 100 +1: How many times do you get to say this and it really happens?

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Y ou hear it all the time at the Italian table. Someone has a birthday and everyone picks up a glass of wine to toast them. Someone else s...