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...Coppola has optioned the book.) He flew his private plane to Chicago to pick up Doniger, now a University of Chicago professor of Hinduism and comparative mythology, and bring her back to Napa to discuss her ideas with him and his wife Eleanor. Over the house wine and Coppola's cooking, they talked about his career. "He was stuck," says Doniger. "For the first time in his life, he could finance a movie, and therefore he didn't have to do what anybody else said, and that paralyzed him. He had no excuse this time if the film...
...customers, a 31-year-old nailist from Shizuoka named Yukari, had no sleep the previous night, having caught the first train in to Tokyo at 3 a.m. The average $3,000 she spends on a visit is almost her entire monthly income, most of it spent on good wine for Nobutora, and a reasonable bottle of shochu for the young hosts who keep her company while Nobutora services other tables. Yukari has broken her own rule of coming to the club only once a month - this is already her third visit this month. And meeting Nobutora, she says, made worthwhile...
...space left by Italian restaurant Campo de Fiori in the Holyoke Center. Campo de Fiori, which similarly offered sandwiches and pizzas, closed after it lost its lease. Farther south on JFK Street, Small Plates Restaurant serves tapas bistro—but lacks the city license it needs to serve wine. The owner of Small Plates, Jerome R. Picca, said he has had trouble securing a license from Cambridge because the last restaurant in that space, Conundrum, went bankrupt in March. Before that, Cafe Iruña offered traditional Spanish dishes there. But for now, Picca still calls his restaurant, which...
...taking a hit in the global economy. In the Doha round of trade negotiations, the U.S. and Europe are supposed to slash farm supports, and the rest of the world is supposed to slash tariffs and other barriers on everything from cars to software to wood to wine to legal and financial services. But for several years, our reluctance to cut farm supports has stalled the talks, kneecapping American firms ranging from Microsoft to FedEx to Anheuser-Busch, and even American farmers who rely on exports. "The problem is a vested political constituency that's absolutely committed to the status...
...read the familiar pages, I had an epiphany. This was me: I had no money, I lived in a tiny apartment; in all essentials I was Laurie Colwin. My reading inspired me to forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet of ramen for the second half of every week. This is the danger and the beauty of food writing. It influences your daily life by changing your own relationship to food—and it can become addictive itself. Prompted by the release...