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...throws open the doors on an alien world of poetry and music and Continental panache (everything forbidden to an English boy). Madame Crommelynck also starts to comment on what we have been reading, asserting that "Beautiful words ruin your poetry" and "A poet throws all but truth in the cellar." Suddenly, as in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall to a boy possessed...
While surveys suggest that most women continue to buy just one or two bottles at a time for immediate consumption, a growing number of female devotees are discovering the pleasures--and surprising affordability--of starting a small collection or cellar and allowing wines to develop over time. When wine is young, its fruit often pops out of the glass, but as it ages--if the wine comes from good soil and a good producer--the fruit fades and the complexity deepens. Women may actually appreciate the nuances of flavor and bouquet more than men do, because studies suggest that they...
...family's wine cache. Olitsky has discovered that even an entry-level wine from a really good producer ages well. She shoots for the best wine in her price range and buys just four to six bottles a month to lay down in the coolest part of her cellar. Food writer Melissa Clark, author of Chef, Interrupted, takes the same approach. But while Olitsky uses her cool New England basement, Clark, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., decided to build a protected environment for her bottles. "I want them to grow old gracefully," she explains. Rather than investing in a refrigerated...
...years, Brand morphed a program that had stood for years as an Ivy League cellar dweller into a national powerhouse. After taking over at Harvard in 1999-2000, Brand has guided the women to two consecutive Ivy League titles and the men’s first ever outright Ivy crown this year...
...From cellar dweller to national champion, from a blizzard in New York to the champions’ podium in Houston, the Harvard fencing team added perhaps the only unwritten chapter to its 100-year history at Rice on Sunday...