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Long before grapes grew on Trellises in Napa and Sonoma, long before vineyards flourished in Bordeaux and Bourgogne, a sophisticated wine industry arose along the banks of the Nile. From tombs, temples and palaces that date as far back as 5,000 years ago, archaeologists have uncovered clay amphorae stamped with seals that name not only the contents (irp, or wine) but also the region in which the grapes were grown, the year in which the wine was produced, the owner of the estate and often some indication of quality, such as "good" and "very, very good...
...more sophisticated flavors like Hawaiian teriyaki. There is even a vegetarian option: meatless jerky made from mushrooms or soybeans. Niman Ranch, whose meats adorn plates at such acclaimed restaurants as Gramercy Tavern and Chez Panisse, has started selling steak jerky for $29 per 9 oz. in the Williams-Sonoma catalog this fall. If your palate demands something more exotic, try game jerky by Covered Wagon Jerky in Derby, Kans. It offers wild boar, ostrich, pheasant and outback-kangaroo jerkies. --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...country club, the photographer and the band had been booked. China and crystal from Macy's, carefully selected. Orders were coming in on the Williams-Sonoma registry. But 18 months into her engagement, Connie Oberle, 31, a corporate lawyer in New York City, decided not to go through with the wedding. "I just knew something wasn't right," Oberle says of her ex-fiance. "We met when we were both ski instructors, and we were great on snow but not when the snow melted...
DIED. ANITA BORG, 54, computer scientist who galvanized women worldwide to join the male-dominated field; of brain cancer; in Sonoma, Calif. At a 1987 conference, she struck up a chat in the ladies' room about the paltry turnout of women. She then founded the "Systers" e-mail list and co-founded a prestigious biannual convention. Her trademark T shirt read, WELL BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY...
...process is called, was developed by the French (of course!) at the Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching to splash around...