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...most Americans would stick to beer and whiskey, the grape farmers in Bill Barich's first novel, Carson Valley (Pantheon; 337 pages; $25), would not have to work as hard as they do. Slaking the thirst of the growing number of wine drinkers takes time and muscle. So where does Arthur Atwater, manager of Victor Torelli's vineyard, find the energy to have a grand cru romance with Anna, the boss's daughter? From the same source of instinctive vitality that drives every other plant and creature in California's wantonly fertile Sonoma County...
...Johnny Depp.' And no, I won't name who they are." What he will argue is that his friend's best work is in his straightest role: the super-responsible elder sibling trying to keep his family from spinning into total dysfunction in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "He's real. He plays heroes in an uncorny...
...after a decade, Glaser quit, a millionaire yearning for his activist past. "I wanted to put up my periscope and regain some perspective on the world," he says. You see, if Gates was Glaser's business role model, Cesar Chavez was his muse. A grape boycotter from way back, Glaser wrote a college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid...
...associate "high culture" with antiquity. Take wine, for instance, a symbol associated with the upper classes of old. Good wine is always old wine; new wine, mere fermented grape juice. Even vintage, another word for classic, is derived from the Latin word for wine. However, old items are not always palatable on first try. Hence, true appreciation often needs to be cultivated. Only then has one developed taste and an appreciation of the finer, more delicate and intellectual side of life...
Blair Gensamer, a former vice president of marketing and strategy at Nestle S.A., created Smilk (that's "smile" plus "milk"), a nonfat milk in seven fruit flavors targeted at school-age kids. An 8-oz. serving of Grinnin' Grape or VeryVery Strawberry offers the nutritional benefits of regular milk and no fat. The downside: 24 g of sugar, on par with a can of soda. Introduced this summer, Smilk is being sold by 300 Wal-Mart superstores as well as in schools in several districts in Michigan. Says Gensamer: "This could be a billion-dollar business." (No doubt naysayers scoffed...