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...junk drawer that's long enough to tie around a box-for a vintage look. Instead of plastic bubble wrap to cushion the contents, try unshelled peanuts, dry pasta or polyester fill from old pillows. Seo also suggests using bandanas and other reusable cloths, and for bottles of wine, sleeves of old flannel shirts. Not fancy enough? Try Poinsettia hemp wrap from Paporganics.com or Importica.com's paper made from naturally shed mulberry tree bark. Smithandhawken.com sells recycled-paper wrap for $9 per 10-ft. roll. For more stylish ideas, go to Idealbite.com...
Missed breakfast again today? No problem. Now you can savor the morning meal at night in the most elegant of settings - a gourmet restaurant. From Northern California's wine country to the dunes of Cape Cod, three-star chefs have begun whipping up surprising combinations like waffles with caviar, eggs benedict with truffles, and even French toast with chevre, and serving them well after dark. Long a staple of roadside diners and harried family cooks with no time to bake a lasagna, breakfast for dinner appeals to our cravings for soft, warm comfort foods that aren't heavy but still...
...alongside über-architect Frank Gehry, who designed the accompanying Marqués de Riscal Hotel as a sweeping homage to the local culture. The enormous titanium roof is sculpted in the shape of a flamenco skirt and tinged to match the pink and gold shades of vintage wine bottles. The 15,000-sq.-ft. spa has 14 treatment rooms and features, among other vineyard-inspired treatments, a Wine Barrel Bath. Caudalie co-founder Mathilde Thomas describes the entire visitor experience as "very elaborate, modern and beautiful." For his part, Gehry was particularly taken by the Beauty Elixir spray, a popular...
...Raise a Glass As someone who likes good food and wine, I was delighted to read about how a substance called resveratrol in red wine proved to have a terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming! Paul Rudder Mammoth Lakes, California...
...ambassador to Bulgaria and devotes himself to charities for Bulgarian children because, he says, "Who wants to be the richest corpse in the graveyard?" But he hasn't lost his corrosive upper-crust wit: "I reckon if I shoot the horses, shoot the wife, and only drink Bulgarian wine, I may be able to retire at age 94 or something...