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...each episode, MacNeil, who is in charge of the wine-teaching program at the Napa Valley, Calif., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, introduces wine to a different audience: a Mexican cooking school, couples on first dates in restaurants, shoppers at a cheese store. Instead of delivering lectures and lapsing into winespeak, she relies on the spontaneous reactions of her guests to get her message across. When she does talk about wine, she uses unconventional, even coquettish language: a Cabernet is "like Sean Connery, masculine and meaty"; a Sauvignon Blanc is "the bad girl of white wine, with mismatched...
...nation's hypertension problem is going to be controlled, epidemiologists know that one place they're going to have to start is in the Latino and black communities. Mexican Americans have a hypertension incidence 5.5% higher than that of whites, and African Americans a whopping 43% higher. Epidemiologists have advanced any number of explanations for the hypertension problem in the black population. One of the most intriguing--if least provable--has been that the brutal conditions aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic served as a sort of adaptive choke point, selecting for people with a tendency to retain salt...
Part Telemundo, part Imitation of Life, Spanglish seems to deal mostly with the inevitable cultural clash between Mexican immigrants and Americans. Still, it plays itself out carefully, never dabbling in Manichean dramatics to make banal statements about assimilation. It doesn’t make light of the cultural clash, but it is never too didactic. With natural dialogue and fantastic performances, Brooks is able to show us the common situations Mexican immigrants face and how funny they...
...modern example of the latter are Nixon itself and Y Tu Mama Tambien, by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, who is also one of the producers of Nixon. Cuaron laments the lack of genuine political fervor behind the majority of American cinema. In a recent interview he described various films by foreign directors who are trying to make a statement. What he disagrees with is the American notion that these filmmakers and their countries hate America. “We love America,” says Cuaron. “Most of us love America, what we don?...
...Mexican yard men named D.J. are good for one thing and one thing only: yard work. That, and rebounding. Very, very good for rebounding...