Word: oaks
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...have no relation to the Champagne region just outside Paris that produces bubbly. But of the six appellations, petite champagnes and grande champagnes, with their gravelly, chalky soils, are credited with producing the best grapes for Cognac. Once the wine is distilled into spirits, it is aged in oak casks, sometimes for many decades. The blending of various spirits, old and young, gives Cognac its superior edge...
...carpet company. In their new $915,000 apartment in Chicago, the couple spent $20,000 to upgrade all six of their closets. Of that amount, $11,000 went toward a 9-ft. by 9-ft. master closet. A cabinet holds 48 pairs of shoes on quartersawn white oak; a four-slotted drawer, up to 30 belts. There is another drawer to display six watches, an upper rack for designer knits, a lower one for casual knits. And there is enough room now to survey all the clothes they own in a glance. "I forgot about half of my clothes before...
...space - the area for special shows is currently devoted to a collection of celadons (green-glazed pottery) from six provincial Chinese museums. It also gains improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details of the 19th century mansion remain: oak parquet floors, decorative ceiling moldings and the original majestic staircase that leads to an upper-floor gallery decorated with bronze Japanese animals. Cernuschi's smoking room, too, has been recreated as a memorial to him. But months after the official June opening, some exhibits - Shang dynasty daggers and ax heads...
...from Houston, the suffering at the Superdome. But in dozens of small towns dug into the fragile ecosystems of the coastal marshes, far from the urban meltdowns, communities weren't just inflamed, they were annihilated. In Cameron Parish, La., along the border with Texas, Rita washed towns like Creole, Oak Grove and Grand Chenier into the sea. In neighboring Vermilion Parish, the residents of Pecan Island returned to find little more than a mile-wide debris field choked with dead marsh grasses...
...writer is entirely serious. Her second novel, Il Giardino del Luppolo (The Hop Garden), published last year in Italy, is about a young German in the 1920s who has hallucinatory premonitions of Hitler's rise. This month comes her latest, L'Ombre del Cerro (Shadow of the Turkey Oak), about two friends struggling to survive the wartime chaos of a country Di Natale once knew: Italy. For her - as for Kaja and millions of others in this rootless, globalized age - the search for home never ends...