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How Slow Food is gaining momentum in Milwaukee


Published Oct. 3, 2008 at 8:27 p.m.

As a concept, Slow Food is much more complex than just the opposite of fast food, but that is part of it. Slow Food is a system -- and a way of living -- that is based on the principals of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability and social justice. Today it's expanded globally to 122 countries, and in the U.S., the 16,000 members of Slow Food USA work to promote local and traditional food products.

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Published Oct. 1, 2008 at 5:39 a.m.

I'm back, I'm home and I'm absolutely cream ( Cockney for Knackered innit). That being said it's good to be in ... The sun is shining, the chicken shops are a plenty and the range of wine and wine shops in my little corner of SW London is plain OFF just past the station and if walking in that direction bores me, I can about turn and hot foot it down to ... What a world we live in eh? ... , Geneva, , to make my way back home to London after 3 years in Italy. During that time this blog was

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye...


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Published Sept. 25, 2008 at 4:25 a.m.

, goodbye ... and I will miss the fabulous prices you get on Italian wine which I will not enjoy in ... We get stuffed on every import and unless I can attune my to Chapel Down and Camel Valley * the bile* then I will just have to embrace the variety even if it comes at a cost ... On Saturday we make our way through a twisty and frightfully dangerous piece of terrain and through to a hotel outside and then Sunday morning I take the cinder line ... to and wind up in London about 11am. So

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Giacosa Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva


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Published Sept. 22, 2008 at 7:45 a.m.

Stefano ... Stefano ... bottles of wine in the whole of Italy. This weekend I was packing up all my wines ready to make the bottle shocking trip back to London via Switzerland and France and decided to save this bottle the journey and drink the famous Red Label from at my leaving meal in Venice. What a chore! Aside from some heartbreaking cork taint there 't going to be any question of disliking the ... 1998 has been my personal favourite and vintage to drink in 2008 and this bottle

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Prunotto Barolo Bussia


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Published Sept. 19, 2008 at 8:03 a.m.

is a wine that has managed to evade me over the last 3 years ... is a highly respected company, the ... is a ... super star of Italian wine and yet I have never tasted this wine. Even though the great of Italian wine own () it has still managed to pass me by. I've seen it, I've picked it up, I've played with it but only this week did I actually purchase a bottle. So last night I thought it was about time to break my duck and see what all the ... is about ... is always talked about in terms of

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Ca del Bosco Cuvee Annamaria Clementi


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Published Sept. 11, 2008 at 7:51 a.m.

Annamaria ... Annamaria ... is the top bottling of Lombardy power-producer Ca ... Faced with last nights choice of sparkler I had to make a toughie between Ca ... Annamaria ... and the ... Extra Brut. I opted for this wine for two reasons. Firstly, I've drunk so much this year it's borderline obscene and secondly, because the Ca ... comes from Lombardy, a region I have continually neglected since the beginning of the blog ... is a huge outfit and the most famous wine maker internationally

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Cantina Tollo Cagiolo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2005


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Published Sept. 9, 2008 at 5:07 a.m.

2005 ... 2005 and wines for this coveted title. Well, coveted-. There's no denying this is a fabulous wine, I tasted it and it's excellent, great structure, fruit and length but the best single varietal wine in Italy, against the 2004 it ... was very well represented but these wines are sent via the producers themselves. No , No , No Rita, No , No , really, very few big Italian names bothered to pay their £80 and send their wines into the judges. However, of 1000 Italian wines this was the

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10 places we'd like to visit before we die


Published Aug. 17, 2008 at 11:03 a.m.


It's hard to imagine wanting to leave Milwaukee during the middle of the summer -- and we're not saying we do. But everyone has a list of places to visit before they leave this earth, and here's ours.

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Grapes Vs The Winemaker's Hand: Which is More Important?


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Published July 26, 2008 at 11:14 a.m.

A symbiotic relationship exists between man and vines, where the grape is domesticated by man, and man, in turn is eventually rewarded by the grapes - the care of a human hand is repaid by the grapes the plant produces. The grapes are obviously a key factor in producing a good wine but without the hand of man, the juices will naturally turn to vinegar, which is very good on your salad - a little less tasty in your glass. So, considering the relevance of the two equal, let me ask another

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Don't let weather keep you from the fun at Festa


Published July 18, 2008 at 3:48 p.m.


Poor Festa. Sure, it's the third week in July, so we can expect heat. And sure, with the heat comes the threat of thunderstorms, but can this festival catch a break?

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