Word: vining
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...heirloom tomatoes that chefs like, including purple brandywines, green striped zebras and fuzzy blues, are popping up at farmers' markets and gourmet food shops, and the seeds are big sell- ers. But whatever types they buy, chefs say they look for the same qualities in tomatoes. They should be vine ripened, fragrant and deeply colored: the reds rosy, the purples uniformly purply. Shape doesn't matter--old-style bumpy tomatoes are often tastiest--but they should be heavy for their size and give ever so slightly when gently squeezed. Store all tomatoes at room temperature; refrigeration makes the flesh mealy...
Global production is increasing steadily. In Australia alone, output has doubled since 1995, with vine acreage up more than 50% in the past four years. Over the same period, the number of wine-drinkers worldwide has stagnated. "There are more and more of us fighting for the same-sized pie," says Charles Maurisset-Latour of the venerable Burgundian firm Maison Latour. The traditional major producers - France, Spain and Italy - have found themselves squeezed by state-of-the-art competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year...
Pomey, a campus socialite from Vine Grove, Ky. and former producer of the Theatricals’ annual show, infamously french-kissed Anthony Hopkins when he received the Pudding’s Man of the Year award last year. She was president of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, co-founder of the female social club Isis and selected by Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekend magazine, as one of Harvard’s 15 most intriguing seniors...
...soil was now too soft for planting, so there seemed nothing else to do but relax on the vine-draped porch of the comfortable guest cottage, admire the views across the valley to Mount Te Mata, and look forward to a home-cooked meal washed down with a glass or two from local vineyards...
Reached at Pomey’s family home in Vine Brook, Kentucky, Pomey’s father Alfred H. Pomey declined to comment on the charges against his daughter or if he had financially assisted his daughter or helped to repay the debt to the Theatricals...