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Autour De La Table

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  All Set - glasses

  Glasses: form and content The basic principle is simple: to avoid mixing wines and their flavors or forcing guests to drain their glasses in one gulp in order to change drink, there should be a glass available for each drink served during the meal. A French place setting will have a more
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  All Set - Mastering Cutlery

  Mastering cutlery On parade Soup spoon, dessert spoons, knife, fish knife, cheese knife, oyster or cake forks ... how do we get our bearings in this jungle of cutlery in a place setting? There are a few simple rules governing this artificially complicated arrangement: one utensil (or pair of utensils) per more
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  The Best Wine In The World

  But how is the best wine in the world made? It all starts with an exceptional vineyard established by the Avignon popes in the fourteenth century on the banks of the Rhône. The estate of Paul Avril, who is the latest in a line of winegrowers going back to 1600, owns more
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  Château Maris, Wine And More

  The Château Maris logo not only looks smart, it actually encapsulates the philosophy of the winemakers at work. It tells us that wine is not just a produce of nature, but that it is also the creation of a universal, open mind, not unlike that of what was once known as more
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  Message In A Bottle

  What could be more down to earth than a bottle of wine, produced by the slow process of a vine taking root in the dry soil of some ancestral ground? Yet some wines have a very close and ancient relationship with the sea. English spoken… Bordeaux is one such example as more
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  Tales Of A Good Smoke

  Being as passionate as he is about his cigars, Patrick Gerthofer likes to give his boutique’s window decoration a distinct touch. However, as Christmas 2005 draws closer, he has no idea that he is about to discover the secret and poetic origins of his very personal inclination toward the pleasure derived more
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  Carl Gustaf, a taste of sunday

  First surprise : Gustavia, beautifully sleeping, quiet like the territory that it was until 2007. Rue de la République and Rue Oscar II; the stores with prestigious signs have their shutters closed. Quai du Bord de Mer, nearly all bars and restaurants have their doors locked. Fortuitously, just a few steps more