Jacqueline Friedrich: The Wine Humanist WINE BY PEOPLE, FOR PEOPLE; WINE FROM THE HEART

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Wine Guide
The Wines of France: The Essential Guide for Savvy Shoppers
An indispensable, user-friendly guide to France’s best and best-value wines. Don’t leave home without it!
Wine & Food Guide
A Wine & Food Guide to the Loire
The first and only in-depth guide to the wines and foods of the Loire.
Tribute to Didier Dagueneau
My various reflections on Didier Dagueneau compiled and posted here.
For Those Who Want Yesterday's Papers
Article Archives
My Previously Published (and retrievable) Articles
Website Supplement
Friends and Their Stories
A guide to the people who make frequent appearances in FrenchFeast and their gastronomic (or other) tales.
Wine Tours
WINE TOURS
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A Day at the Fair: A Game Plan

January 25, 2010

Tags: Salon des Vins de Loire, Loire Wine Fair

This time next week I will be on a local train taking me from the Port Boulet station to the Gare Angers St. Lo on my way to the Salon des Vins de Loire. I always have an ambitious program planned for myself and am lucky if I manage to accomplish a third of (more…)

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I'm interviewed by Lynn Chamberlain of WineRadio. Most of you know all this about me.
In honor of the publication of Virginia's book, Carlos Gardel singing "Adios Muchachos," a tango that makes me think of, not only Buenos Aires and the banks of the Seine, but of tea dances and les petits bals du samedi soir.
My friend, Virginia Gift, just self-published the definitive book on Argentine tango. She's been working on it for ten years, interviewing anyone who every had anything to do with tango -- whether here in France or in Buenos Aires or elsewhere. We met in a tango class in Paris. She became a fanatic; I dropped out. Those are the only two options with Argentine tango. The book is available on Amazon.

One of the insidious Lou Perac commercials I speak of in the Roquefort post. A rough translation is below:
A young, attractive, quasi-urban -- aka modern-looking -- couple was chosen deliberately. She approaches as he is eating a slice of Lou Perac while his sheep graze. She says, "Is it for Lou Perac that you come this far?" He answers, basically,"You get the best milk from here and you need the best milk to make the best cheese."
She replies, "Sometimes I think you care more about your sheep than about me."
He just looks at her.

Two kids doing a take-off on the Lou Perac commercial -- with a slightly different kicker! When 'the wife' says she thinks her husband cares more about her sheep than he does about her, he answers, "You, it's just for sex." (Well, the real dialogue is mor

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"Oklahoma" from the musical of the same name. The movie version, performed by Gordon McCrae and Shirley Jones.
Nit-pickers snarked at Obama's having given the Queen of England an iPod. Turned out she asked for one. He filled it with videos of her trips to America. Knowing that "Oklahoma" is her favorite musical, Obama also gave the Queen a rare book of Richard Rodgers' music.

The Tokens singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
I posted this song for Maureen Fant because we refer to her husband Franco as "the lion" and when we're all driving somewhere in the car we usually end up singing the song. Franco usually starts it. And the reason the song came to mind is that MSNBC posted a clip from The Today Show with really cute baby lions on it. They played The Lion Sleeps Tonight in the background. Now I better do something serious -- like taste some chenin blancs.

March 7, 2009: If you haven't yet discovered Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, here's your opportunity.
Another joyous trip down memory lane -- with an Obama connection. (For those of you who were wondering where he got "pick yourself up, dust yourself off," it's here, Jerome Kern's song from the 1936 film "Swingtown," performed by Astaire and Rogers.
Kind of fitting that Obama chose to quote lyrics from a depression-era song.
BTW, if you watch the clip to the end, when the second couple dances, you'll get an idea of my ballroom competence.

Because we've gotten our country back, this song from the "We Are One" concert on the Sunday before Obama took the oath of office. This Land is Your Land with Pete Singer, Bruce Springsteen and others.
In honor of Barack Obama's Inauguration, a song I just received.
THANKSGIVING SONGS from my youth. Taught to all students at Marshall School in South Orange, New Jersey by Miss Sandquist, our kindergarden teacher and leader of twice weekly assemblies when the student body gathered in the auditorium and sang.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE


" class="QuickLink" target="_blank">Now that he's almost history, we can laugh. Click on this and see some of W's greatest gaffes.
This link will bring you to a fun Palin site. Click on various objects in the room.
Of the hundreds of email jokes about the election that have been sent to me, I think this is my favorite.