Word: acidly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wine Avenger, Gluckstern has spent the better part of a decade crusading on behalf of Riesling, the dominant German varietal that has been cruelly stereotyped on American shores as tasting sweeter than Katie Couric dipped in caramel. "All grapes are not created equal," Gluckstern says. "There's an acid-sugar balance in great Riesling that you won't find in any other grape." Stubborn U.S. diners have mostly ignored him and gone on sipping their Chardonnay...
...grape can be harvested late to make the syrupy sweet wines Americans are averse to, or picked early for dry Chardonnay imitations. Epicures prefer the middle ground, in which the wine has a delicate floral scent, low alcohol content, a light, fruity sweetness at the front and a slightly acid aftertaste that cleanses the palate and cuts through fats and proteins. "There's absolutely no better wine with food," says Gluckstern...
...that possible? How could this amphibian, christened the Australian gastric-brooding frog, carry the eggs (and then the tadpoles) inside her stomach without having the offspring digested by stomach acid? To his amazement, Tyler found that the mother frog had the ability to turn off her stomach acids while carrying her precious cargo...
...doesn't take a pharmaceutical marketing manager to figure out the potential here. Excess stomach acid causes great misery in millions of human beings. Perhaps the frog secreted a compound that could help chemists develop a new drug to relieve some human stomach ailments. Maybe so, but we'll never know. The Australian gastric-brooding frog went extinct in 1980, long before a drug company could uncover its secret...
...basis of those conversations, the Justice Department accused ADM of conspiring with other food producers to fix the price of lysine, an amino acid and an additive to animal feed. The tapes were released to the public last Friday, and showed the executives giggling as they discussed what the price of lysine should be in various markets...