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...French wine critic Jacques Dupont doubts the message is reaching everyone, though?especially the lower-end, Bordeaux-producing majority. "For too long they have neglected marketing," he says. "I believe we've hit rock bottom, but now they must rise from this crisis with new ways of functioning." If nothing else, many viticulturalists will learn how to toast in Japanese this year?kampai...
Summer rolls without mint; puttanesca without anchovies. Those are the compromises that have made the Cheesecake Factory such an inviting target. One critic derided the "something for everyone" aesthetic as "a repository for all other corporate-restaurant concepts." Overton can live with that. "We just try to be really good, with strong flavors," he says. "Authenticity isn't anything that we really care about." He's ready for the purists who will complain that the cured meat in a new pasta amatriciana really ought to be guanciale, made from pork jowls, rather than pancetta, pork belly. "You know what? Most...
...pasta entrée, along with a spinach, poached-chicken and bacon salad, a crab hash made with potatoes and onions and the pasta with four roasted tomato sauces--including puttanesca without anchovies. If they don't sell, they're gone, no matter how much Overton or any critic loves or loathes them...
...most imitated bouquets, has suffered mightily. But you'll be hard-pressed to see much gloom at this summer's fifth Bordeaux Wine Festival. In fact, this year, the world's largest wine region has ample grounds to celebrate: American wine pope Robert Parker is one of the many critics who believe the 2005 Bordeaux vintage is the finest in a century, heralding Bordeaux's comeback. From June 29 to July 2, some 300,000 oenophiles will make the pilgrimage to this Bacchanalian paradise, [an error occurred while processing this directive]which has been producing wine since 300 B.C. From...
Born in Moscow and raised in Berlin, Leo Steinberg has been a leader in the art world as an artist, collector, critic, and professor of art history. His critiques of contemporary art have earned him recognition among fellow art historians, though he is an authority on a wide span of history...