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Rick Steves, perhaps America's most accomplished European tourist, was looking for a cheap but charming steak place in the ancient Tuscan town of Montepulciano last month. Following a local lead, he ducked into an osteria he'd never noticed before: a vaulted medieval cellar jammed with locals sitting at a common table. A man worked an open fire at the back of the room. He carved chops from a huge side of beef lying on a gurney, presented them in butcher paper to each customer for inspection and then fired them one by one, seven minutes on each side...
Traditionally mired in the cellar of the Ivy League, the Harvard men’s basketball program showed signs of rejuvenation this season, capturing headlines and personal accolades en route to a .500 record...
...parallel story lines that converge late in the film, German Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), a kind of supersleuth "Jew hunter" with a chatty, almost courtly demeanor, discovers and kills most of a Jewish family hiding in the cellar of a French farm. One girl, Shoshanna, escapes to Paris, where she runs a movie theater. She meets a young soldier, Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl of Good Bye Lenin!) who has become a battlefield hero and starred in his own military biopic, which is to receive its world premiere at Shoshanna's theater with top Nazis in attendance...
...Cheese and Wine Room: At this vaulted sandstone cellar within Sydney's heritage GPO building, www.gposydney.com, diners are encouraged to create their own cheese board from fromager Sonia Cousins' extensive menu, which changes seasonally and is divided into fresh, white-mold, washed-rind, semi-hard, hard and blue cheeses from Australia and Europe. Accompaniments include truffled honey, muscatel raisins and novelties like hibiscus chutney. There's an excellent choice of paired cheese-and-wine menus with tasting notes - even a single-malt-whiskey-and-cheese menu - as well as monthly master classes...
...doesn't stop it from luring plenty of custom with its walk-in cheese facility stocked with 40 artisanal varieties. The cheeses can be served at the Cheese Room's parent operation, the Press Room restaurant next door, or in situ - choose from casual deli tables, or a wine cellar that functions as a private dining room...