Word: artisanal
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CAPE TOWN KitchenAid's legendary Artisan five-quart stand mixer ($349.99) is still a best seller in Empire...
...time to ratchet back our wild and crazy grasshopper side and get in touch with our inner ant, to be more artisan-enterpriser and less prospector-speculator, more heroic Greatest Generation and less self-indulgent baby boomer, to return from Oz to Kansas, to become fully reality-based again...
...beyond its final dollar tally, the disassembling of the Saint Laurent-Bergé collection is significant as a chance to mine the last vestiges of the 20th century aesthetic, and reflect on those same walls that divide - and sometimes unite - the artist and artisan, taste and knowledge, sense of style and pursuit of the sublime. (See pictures from Yves Saint Laurent's art auction...
...generation of artisan winemakers is intent on fixing Beaujolais' bruised reputation. Three years ago, Marie-Elodie Zighera invested everything in her old family vineyard, Clos de Mez in Fleurie, determined "to change the image of the wines of Beaujolais." Her belief in the region's fare stems from a "sumptuous" 1911 Beaujolais Cru Morgon she once sampled. "I've tasted what they could do back then, and that's the style I'm searching for," she says. Zighera patiently vinifies in tiny volumes with the Gamay grapes' natural yeasts to create her elegant, structured Fleurie La Dot. (See where...
...Also counted against him was his extraordinary productivity. He saw himself as more an artisan than an artist, and he produced nearly a book a year for much of his life - not just novels but short stories, book reviews, memoir and art criticism. His relentless curiosity sometimes led him to attempt experiments that were beyond his range: science fiction in Toward the End of Time, for example, and a retelling of the Hamlet story in Gertrude and Claudius. But at his very best, as in the Rabbit novels - two of which won Pulitzer Prizes - or his 1968 shocker, Couples...