Новости за 12.10.2012

ON THE TOWN Sommelier's haunts include plenty of bars but also the great outdoors and farmers' market The native of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, was introduced to wine by an uncle in London and studied under famed sommelier Larry Stone at the long-gone Rubicon restaurant. The sommelier, who lives a single life (ladies, are you listening?) in San Francisco's Financial District, is learning that making wine is far different than serving wine. Where do his tastes lie when bouncing around town? Читать дальше...

Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's Beverly Hills mansion doubled as a Hollywood producer's headquarters in Ben Affleck's new movie Argo.
The actor/director and his crew never met the 95-year-old TV and movie legend during the shoot, because she was confined to her bedroom throughout the project - and too sick for visitors.
Meanwhile, a Los Angeles estate doubled for the Canadian ambassador's residence in Tehran, Iran and the Ontario International Airport just outside the city became the Tehran airport for the film. Читать дальше...

Let's start with some questions: Is it just bad luck that so many god-awful playoff performers found themselves playing for the New York Yankees? Does...

Tennis Now’s Blair Henley talks Kei Nishikori’s beer supply, Roger Federer’s No. 1 ranking, and Andy Murray’s sleepy brother, Jamie. Also, weigh in on Bernard Tomic’s lack of effort, and see Novak Djokovic and Laura Robson do their best to keep the Gangnam Style craze alive.

While Kei Nishikori was busy trying to figure out what he’s going to do with a year’s worth of beer, we were compiling the latest and greatest updates from around the tennis world.

Hey tennis fans, I’m Blair... Читать дальше...

With only seven per cent of goods transported on inland waterways in the European Union (EU), “considerable efforts” are still required by the region’s governments and the transport industry to increase this number and relieve congested road and rail networks, according to a UN report.

Stanley Speed lived up to his surname on Friday. As a result, Yokota won the DODDS Japan and Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools yet again on coach Tim Pujol’s watch.

Through history, displaced peoples have re-created the foodways of their lost homelands in diaspora communities, starting with seeds or tubers that make it through the filters of distance and hardship. There's besobila, sacred basil, an essential ingredient in the seasoning mix called berbere ("the backbone of the sauces"); gesho, a flavoring agent in tej (honey wine); and assorted culinary herbs and greens. The leaves of the endod vine contain a chemical that kills the aquatic snails that spread bilharzia... Читать дальше...

A quick and easy way to make wounds that will last for hours and hours.

Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.

Don't hide it at the back of a drawer. Once a simple thing, the waiter's friend is now a hi-tech piece of kitchen kit...