I don’t know why, but I’ve been really into weddings lately.  Strange, isn’t it?  I’ve been married for almost 9 years so why the fascination all of a sudden?
Anyway, the brains behind SmittenKitchen is baking a wedding cake, and it is a fascinating behind the scenes look at the stress and such that goes into […]

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I am by no means the tree-hugger type.
I know, that is a weird way to start but my topic for today is supporting locally grown food. More to the point, my family purchased a share from a local farm - Pennypack Farm. Pennypack Farm is part of the growing Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) […]

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The 2008 Philadelphia Wine Festival is today. The beneficiary this year is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the best children’s hospitals in the country.
Lots of good wineries present - and an extra-special liquor store set up by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, one of the most over-bearing and ridiculous monopolies in […]

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(Update on 23 June 2008: The final paper is now published. A summary is available here. Our summary below is based on the working draft - some aspects possibly changed prior to final publication.)
The last year or so has seen an awful lot of interesting research being done on the consumer’s preferences for […]

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Consumers like to see scores for wines. They just do.
Wine people really hate to boil it all down to a single number (well, most of them hate it) but there is just no getting around it.
Recently the good folks over at Domaine547.com started a great conversation. It stemmed from an […]

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