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December 31, 2006

Champagnes – I Resemble That Remark :)

Category: General. Posted by Noel at 2:45 pm.

I Resemble That Remark :)
My blogging buddy Jeff over at Good Grape posted the following comment about your humble narrator:“While Tim isn t a geek, he does bring the right mix of skills to being an online ringleader notably he s a marketer with technical chops two characteristics that are sometimes in conflict with each other.”Wrong! I am a geek (from a [...]

Top 10 Posts of 2006
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to take a quick look back on 2006. This was a mixed year for me, with some great times but also some pretty crappy times. The most popular posts here point almost exclusively to the good, as expected:1. Proposal For A Virtual Wine 2.0 Event – [...]

Wine 2.0 Meetup Deux on Tuesday
Just a reminder that the next Wine 2.0 meetup is on Tuesday evening at 9pm EST/6pm PST/2am (Wed.) GMT/1:00 pm (Wed.) AEST. Everyone interested is invited, just click on the Lingr link, below.Less Preliminary Agenda:1) Introductions2) Define“Wine 2.0″3) Current Wine 2.0 sites: what works, what doesn’t?4) Mashup ideas5) Marketing discussion6) Future; what’s coming [...]

Winecast Turns 2 Today
Twenty-four months ago I installed WordPress, downloaded Audacity, plugged an Xbox karaoke mic into my laptop and hit record. What came out was the first episode of Winecast and the first podcast about wine. Since then, I’ve produced 69 more full length podcasts and 5 Quick Picks shows. Not a lot of content in the [...]

Champagnes – John Fischer (Professor, Culinary Institute of America)

Category: General. Posted by Noel at 2:00 pm.

John Fischer (Professor, Culinary Institute of America)
Look for his book At Your Service. Professor Fischer joins us from the campus of the preeminent culinary school in America to talk about service, the state of dining in America and professional careers in the restaurant business. He is intelligent, …

Jacqui Naylor
Jacqui has been called the"new voice of jazz"by Vogue. Jazz Times writes,"In the never-ending,’next big thing’sweepstakes, bet on Jacqui Naylor."She is a tremendous and tremendously versatile singer songwriter with …

Farmer John Peterson
THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN is the award-winning true story of third-generation American farmer John Peterson’s hero’s journey of success, tribulation, failure and rebirth, through his childhood in the 50s, the tumultuous 60s, the …

French Bread (Steven A. Kaplan)
Steven L. Kaplan is the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History at Cornell. He has published widely in French and English on eighteenth-century France, food and foodways, the French Revolution and its bicentennial in 1989, and on contemporary …