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California winemakers brace for smaller supply of grapes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs California's winemakers begin the 2008 harvest, they are scrambling to find enough Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. After several years of bumper crops, Mother Nature turned fickle this year, offering up deep frosts, followed by...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, August, Beverage Industry, Food Industry
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Food industry is bitten by its own lobbying success
Associated PressWASHINGTON — The food industry must drop any remaining opposition to electronic record-keeping and back an effective system for tracing contamination to its source, a lawmaker investigating food safety said Friday. "It is my hope that the food...Tags: Food Safety, Healthcare Policies, Lobbying, Food Industry, Bart Stupak
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World of change in winemaking
Chicago Tribune criticChicagoans are thirsty. Whether it's an $8 glass of 2006 Brooks Riesling from Oregon raised in a toast at Webster's Wine Bar in Lincoln Park, a $15 bottle of French ros� named the "Pink Criquet" and tossed back on an Oak Park porch, or a $2,125 bottle...Tags: Sales, Geography, Chicago Weather, Charlie Trotter, DePaul University
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Tomato paste may be better than fresh tomatoes
Cox News ServiceDespite advice that eating a whole food can be superior to eating a supplement or processed food containing the vitamins or minerals of the real thing, the tomato is turning that dictum on its ear. Even before the recent salmonella outbreak in some types...Tags: Giorgio Armani, Major League Baseball, Food Industry, Cancer, Research
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Concerts, festivals promote wineries
Special to the TribuneDave Cushman, chief winemaker for Park Farm Winery & Vineyard near Dubuque, Iowa, is going to make a change in a successful recipe this year. "When we have our annual grape stomp for the public," he said, "we're going to judge contestants on style this...Tags: Sales, Floods, Beverage Industry, Food Industry, Real Estate Sellers
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It's Citrus season again in Hollywood
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCarpaccio of "surf, turf and earth" is laid out on a square platter -- a fabulous mosaic of raw beef, tuna, salmon, scallop and roasted pepper, each round decorated with a wisp of frisee or a pretty pink grapefruit segment, the whole pulled together...Tags: Food and Dining Culture, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Personal Service, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Beverage Industry
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Soldier who grew up in Norfolk killed in Iraq
757-247-7821A 32-year-old Norfolk-native, husband and father of two children and two step-sons died March 29 at the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from wounds he received in Iraq. Army Sgt. Jevon K. Jordan was hurt March 23 in Abu Jassim...Tags: Death and Dying, Hampton Roads, Norfolk County, Defense, Emergency Incidents
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A wine label overhaul: Meet the man who'd change your AVA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN a small, windowless laboratory -- far removed from romantic vineyard vistas -- scientists at the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) are attempting what most wine lovers would say is impossible. They are developing a test for terroir,...Tags: Mike Thompson, Dietary Supplements, Food Industry, Beverage Industry, Government
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Your friend, the kitchen
If Americans are feeling frustrated about food, who can blame us? It's not just the bugs in the burger or the hormones in Chinese seafood -- or even the skyrocketing prices. It's that most of us feel powerless to fix things. We may be a nation of do-it-...Tags: Food Industry, Consumers, Family
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Robert Mondavi, 94; vintner was a powerful ambassador for California wine
Special to The TimesRobert Mondavi, the pioneering Napa Valley vintner whose drive and salesmanship revolutionized the way the world thought about California wine, died peacefully Friday at his Yountville, Calif., home, a spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery said. He...Tags: Sales, Death and Dying, History, Constitutional Issues, Constellation Brands Incorporated
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Diversity grows with grapes
Sun foreign reporterOne in a series of articles documenting the issues of South Africa's post-apartheid generation A few years ago, Howard Booysen thought "bouquet" referred only to flowers and that the mark of a fine wine was a big, fruity flavor. Now, at 24, he is one of...Tags: Food Industry, Beverage Industry, Awards and Prizes, Government, Academic Progress
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Discount-grocer Aldi to set up shop in Florida with 25 stores
Sentinel Staff WriterDiscount grocery shopping is entering a new era in Central Florida. Aldi, a no-frills grocery-store chain from Germany, said Thursday it plans to build a distribution center in Polk County to serve 25 new stores expected to open along the Interstate 4...Tags: Groceries, Real Estate, Interstate 4, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Real Estate Buyers
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