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Wines From Spain, a division of the Trade Commission of Spain has released the 2008 Far From Ordinary Wine Guide.
Not just any puff promotoional piece, it's tour of the country's 67 Denominations of Origin with master sommelier/master of wine Doug Frost. It covers history and varietal information and includes tasting notes on 180 wines. Very cool for free at www.winesfromspainusa.com.
As we join Chinese-Americans in celebrating the Year of the Rat today, Fred Ferretti, who writes about Asian cuisine for Food Arts magazine, offers an insightful op-ed in The New York Times about the deplorable state of Chinese food in America.
Not health issues, mind you, but why we have come to love a Chinese cuisine that is at best a crude approximation of the real thing, how that came to be and how the myth is perpetuated by so-called food professionals.
You'll never look at a Chinese menu in quite the same way again. Gong xi fa cai (Happy New Year).
