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Keller's joint, the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley, has been called one of the top restaurants in America by Esquire, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, USA Today and Wine Spectator. He's earned the title the hard way, by, as he says, "getting the best ingredients and not screwing it up." He spends much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook...
...from a postcollege stint in the vineyards of Burgundy and eager to make his own wine, bought a Volkswagen camper and spent two years driving around California looking for the perfect place to grow Pinot Noir grapes. He finally found grape pay dirt, but nowhere near the famed Napa Valley. Instead it was 135 miles south, on a limestone-rich mountainside east of Monterey. Jensen planned to plant vines in the Gavilan Mountains at 2,200 ft. above sea level, making his future vineyard among the highest, and the coldest, in California. Around that same time, another young winemaker...
Winemakers from as far as Australia and as near as the Napa Valley are discovering what the pioneers have always known: the fertile soils and varied micro-climates from Monterey to Santa Barbara are capable of producing world-class wines--at consumer-friendly prices...
Look west anywhere in Salt Lake Valley and you won't see the future--Americans' traditional association with that compass point--but the past. In Bingham Canyon, at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains, five generations of copper miners spanning the 20th century have cleared a pit three-fourths of a mile deep and more than 2 miles across, seemingly large enough to catch the expansive Utah sky should it ever fall in. The sky hangs securely above, but the state's economy, which since 1988 had seemed equally horizonless, has slipped with everyone else's into a canyon-like...
While it is too early to know how the renewed interest in law and business schools will affect the demographics of the HLS and HBS student bodies, forecasts are mixed—especially at HLS—about a possible influx of Silicon Valley refugees...