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Wine Educators - Offers corporate and consumer tutored tastings, themed diners and wine weekends.
Andy`s Scribblings - Wine and drink weekly email newsletter offering recommendations, food matching advice, tasting notes, web retailer reviews, new products, consumer guide.
Decanter.com - Online version of noted British wine magazine features wine news and views, a wine auction price tracker, a wine forum and subscription information.
Tom Cannavan's Wine Pages - Extensive fine wine tasting notes, recommendations, articles on major wine producing areas, wine sites, visiting wine regions, wine appreciation course and quiz.
Wine and Dine - Articles on wine plus restaurant reviews.
Wine Magazine - Online subscription form for a magazine about all aspects of wine. Also back copies and associated Amazon bookstore.
Eat, Drink and Really Be Merry - Humorous articles on the world of food and drink.
Times Online: Food & Drink - Offers restaurant and wine reviews from Giles Coren, an online wine-tasting course, recipes and features from famous chefs as well as the newspaper's own columnists.
Telegraph: Wine - Food and drink articles, recipes and reviews, for both cooks and restaurant-goers. Special sections include Ask an Expert and The Hungry Traveller.
Independent: Food & Drink - News, features and restaurant reviews plus recipes with archive index.
BBC - Food - Extensive site includes news and features, TV and radio programmes, recipes, and basics. Sections focus on healthy eating, in season, chefs and feeding children.
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - Quirky site about a couple's never-ending international quest for the best tea and biscuits. Full archives of reviews.
Observer Food Monthly - News, features and columns about food and wine, cooking in and eating out. Full archives.
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte News and Media The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) News and Media Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott News and Media Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James News and Media Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) News and Media You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick News and Media Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig News and Media Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, News and Media If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach News and Media He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx News and Media Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost News and Media It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) News and Media Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) News and Media Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden News and Media He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous News and Media Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky News and Media "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost News and Media There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler News and Media "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) News and Media The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan News and Media
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