Have Yourself a Bubbly Little Christmas
The retail shelves are flooded with bubbly choices this time of year — everything from Cook’s to Krug. And I get this question several times
The retail shelves are flooded with bubbly choices this time of year — everything from Cook’s to Krug. And I get this question several times
There are two kinds of sparkling wine in this world. Champagne and Not-Champagne. Only Champagne is Champagne. Flashback: There was a time in my life (back in
Today’s words come to us from English writer and social critic, Charles Dickens. Widely considered one of the best writers of the Victorian Era (the period during Queen
I just finished reading The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar. It’s historical fiction about the last days of the Romanov family, spent under
Today’s words come to us from one of the great female pioneers of Champagne, Lily Bollinger. Madame Bollinger (or Madame Jacques, as she was known) gave
Monday was Adolf Hitler’s Birthday. I know this because my teenager came home and announced it — they’ve been studying World War II in his history class. On Monday,
I love used bookstores. I go used bookstore-ing (yes, I just made up a verb) the same way others go antiquing. My motivation is similar,
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