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THE 'PRACTICE' STAR MARLA SOKOLOFF WEDS
Actress Marla Sokoloff is a married woman, now. Actress Marla Sokoloff, weds Alex Puro at Il Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills Sunday evening in an intimate Jewish ceremony. The former Practice star, Marla Sokoloff 29-year old walked down a red candle-lit carpet towards her husband, wearing a cream strapless, low-cut bridal gown, with a black sash and topped off with a veil.
Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters: A Review
I was reading the NY Times' book reviews and I came across an interesting review on the book, Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters by Jonathan Nossiter. (262 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26) As background, I would hope that every serious wine drinker has seen Modovino by this time, a movie ostensibly about the world wine trade. if nothing else it is fascinating. I will admit here and now that I am no fan of Robert Parker nor of that other popular wine magazine which seems like it is at every checkout counter. however I dislike them for different reasons. Parker, at very least, knows something about wine, but his mere favorable mention of a given wine has been known to send it soaring. There are many popular examples. The other magazine, which shall go unmentioned, has attempted to manipulate wine drinkers into various drining habits. Not without its merits, especially in areas of travel articles, there is a common joke in the wine trade that when a wine is panned in the magazine, it is said that the winery probably forgot to pay its bill. In any case, I thought this review was a pretty good one, of not only the book but the way in which we find the wine world today, so I am posting it here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.L’OCCITANE Grape Anti-Retention Gel
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Is Drilling To Blame For Texas Quakes?
I heard this report on NPR this morning and thought it'd be interesting to share. I found another piece (Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears ) which I thought I'd share the link to in case anybody is interested. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html * by Wade Goodwyn npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106059425 The 18-hole Cleburne Municipal Golf Course was built in part with money the city received from royalties from natural gas companies that built on city ground.Pinots are Boring?
http://www.chow.com/stories/11408 Down with Boring Pinots Genetic diversity makes for better wine By Jordan Mackay I‘m a sucker for fall foliage, but San Francisco, where I live, doesn’t get much of a show. So, taking Amtrak from Seattle down to Portland the other day, I was transfixed by the swaths of red, gold, yellow, and orange streaking by the window. As we sped down the line, I wondered why the leaves of one maple turn red while the oak right next to it is a lovely bronze.Silly Ladybug!
Chocolate cake with green vanilla frosting overall on the sheet cake. Green and yellow vanilla buttercream accents for the "Happy Birthday" message, the grass, and the vines and leaves.
The ladybug was scultptured from rice krispie treats draped in red and black fondant.
Jeff Chandler
Born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities. Later, he took a drama course and spent two years in stock companies before serving in World War II. After being discharged from the military, he was a busy radio actor both in drama (such as episodes of Escape) and comedy (playing bashful biology teacher Phillip Boynton on Our Miss Brooks).Time to get things started!
i've been waiting for posts to appear here (since i belong to the clueless-about-wine category), but no such luck! so i googled, and found this website which gave quite a clear cut basic info about wine, so i thought i'd share it! im only gonna post excerpts, but go read the actual thing!The Return of a Lost Jersey Tomato
The Return of a Lost Jersey Tomato By JULIA MOSKIN, NY Times Published: July 23, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/dining/23toma.html?th&emc=th WHEN heirloom tomatoes became popular in the 1990s, Jack Rabin became acutely uncomfortable. “Everyone was going gaga over them. My farmers were trying to grow them, and we’d walk out in the field and just see horticultural garbage,” said Mr. Rabin, a longtime agricultural extension agent with Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.Salmonella Tomato Warning Updated
Update Tomato Outbreak - Major expansion of area! June 10, 2008 11:00 PM: The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw, red tomatoes. At this time, FDA is advising consumers to limit their consumption of tomatoes to the following types of tomatoes.
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