Word: wineing
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...When I first came to work here, I couldn’t tell a Manischewitz from a Montepulciano,” she said. “I had to develop an almost encyclopedic knowledge of wine to be taken seriously in this business...
Sitting in an office chair at the back of University Wine Shop, between Harvard and Central Squares, Kelly A. White admitted she was an unlikely member of the “stodgy, elitist” clan of wine experts...
...recent Brandeis University graduate who studied neuroscience and fine arts, White has had an unorthodox career path. She started working part-time in wine stores when she turned 21, and she has just completed a wine education program with the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, a Boston University affiliate...
...live in a world of proliferating celebrity chefs and their would-be four-star palaces, places where morsels of fennel confit repose in their pools of lemon jus, where there's almost as much Prada on the clientele as there is at most Prada stores and where the wine list has bottles that cost more than a six-disc CD player. At these prices, it's not enough to sell just food. Atmosphere, cachet, sex appeal, status--all those are on the menu too, and it's largely the job of the decor to provide them. (Or to lure...
Those drugs haven't been perfected yet, but Sinclair and other researchers are making progress by trying to understand at the molecular level what it is about CR that seems to slow aging. Sinclair has found, for example, that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, increases life-spans of yeast and fruit flies. It works by amplifying the action of a molecule called SIRT1, which is present in all life forms and is produced in response to stress. "It's like a cell's 911 center," says Sinclair, and resveratrol is like a false alarm...