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LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Mar 29, 2001
Bodegas Bilbainas -- an estate of grace
I couldn't have asked for a better location to write the last Wine Ways: on a sun-bathed veranda, caressed by a soft spring breeze, overlooking the broad, bustling Ramlas, Barcelona's magnificent promenade.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Mar 22, 2001
Raimat's verdant vineyards produce rich variety of wine
I recently enjoyed a trip to the Raimat wineries in Catalonia in Spain's northeast.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Mar 8, 2001
Rendezvous at Foodex
Japan's wine world is once again gearing up for the biggest event of the year: Foodex Japan 2001, the massive annual international food and drinks event to be held March 13-16 in the sprawling halls of the Nippon Convention Center (Makuhari Messe). The 26th Foodex Japan will be the most spectacular one...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Feb 22, 2001
Take time to savor the days of wine and oysters
Once again fate finds me back in Japan, wondering what I can enjoy eating here that I can't enjoy back in lovable Leuven, Belgium, where one can have excellent cuisine of all kinds with a glass of well-made wine for a pittance (the norm is the Belgian franc equivalent of under 1,000 yen). It's hard to...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Feb 8, 2001
All good wines must converge
For winemakers in the Southern Hemisphere (specifically in South Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand), February is a very important month -- just before the harvest in March, half a year or more before harvest time in the Northern Hemisphere.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Jan 25, 2001
Wine with Chinese? Sure, why not?
Once again it's time to say Happy Chinese New Year.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Jan 11, 2001
Kick off your year of wine-drinking with a refresher
Here's wishing you a Happy New Year, a bit belatedly. After all the hoopla a year ago, isn't it ironic that the new millennium didn't actually begin until 11 days ago?
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Dec 28, 2000
Terrific turkey dish fit for a robust red
Season's greetings as the Year of the Snake, 2001, prepares to slither in. By this time of year, some of us have eaten so much turkey in so many guises that we'd gladly throttle the next bird we see and pray for a fowl-free New Year. Banish the thought! Before you curse the very mention of roast fowl,...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Dec 14, 2000
Perfect match for sushi found in Deppisch wine
When all 194-cm of Johannes Deppisch looms before you, complete with his warm, spontaneous smile, you're inclined to think that his wines must be as powerful as he is. In fact, they're light, dry and fruity, and as refreshing as a visit to Josef Deppisch Weingut. Founded in 1872 in Marktheidenfeld, the...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Nov 23, 2000
End your festive feast with a liquid dessert
With yet another Thanksgiving, Hanuka, Christmas and so forth soon to come, the question is, should you gorge away at the big dinner or discreetly desist a bit to "make sure," as some say, "that there's still some room left for dessert"?
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Nov 9, 2000
Tummy-warming marc and brandy
Today is the 11th anniversary of the big "Berlin Wall Bash," so let's clink and drink to that momentous event with, if you will, a white wine. I propose something German -- a riesling from Nierstein, a bone-dry Wurzberg Muller-Thurgau, or a sekt from Adolf Schmitt near Trier (excellent also with sushi)....
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Oct 27, 2000
How to find the very best goat eggs
"Any goat eggs today?" I asked with mock anxiety, and a face to match.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Oct 12, 2000
What bulging waistline? Let's talk about cheese
When your 8-year-old son suddenly starts thumping your belly gleefully like a bongo drum, chances are it means you've put on some weight. I confess that I've added 2-3 kg to my 190-cm frame since arriving more than a year ago in Belgium, a gastronomic paradise blessed with a tremendous variety of wines,...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Sep 28, 2000
Have some madeira, my dear
What's fascinating, fortified and fun to discover?
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Sep 14, 2000
Fine old tradition behind world-renowned bubbly
As quick as popping a cork, it seemed, three weeks ago I was on a Brussels-to-Paris high-speed Thalys train, savoring visions of France's picturesque Champagne region.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 24, 2000
Sampling the best the world of wine writing has to offer
Next to a good wine, I might settle for a good wine book, if only I had time to read them. Having just finished writing a 20,000-word thesis last week on a rather weighty subject, I decided to reward myself with a little wine reading. Fate recently fed my bibliophilia with a few wine books, some of them...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 10, 2000
Let the sleeping dog lie, but don't miss Slovenia
Before I'd even had a chance to say hello to Kim he was stretched out in the sunlight with indulgent abandon and was either snoring or thinking out loud very audibly. A guest began to chat with Boris Lieber, epicure, buckwheat cooking buff and owner-proprietor of Slovenia's highly regarded Pension Lieber....
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Jul 27, 2000
Memory of a rebel ages well in Californian wine
Sailboats frolicked in the bay like impish elves, rocking lightly in the wake of yachts that cut through the water like dolphins, as the sun slipped out of sight in Sausalito. I was back in this same little haven-by-the-sea in north California, in the Ondine restaurant with good friends, sipping good...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Jul 13, 2000
Legacy of Thomas Jefferson thrives in Virginian vineyards
All the rich green trees Mother Nature ever created seemed to be growing here, covering low-lying mountains festooned with wispy mist, under a mantle of robin-egg blue. Once again I was back in Virginia, and once again glad of it. Even without a single winery the Commonwealth of Virginia would rank among...
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
May 25, 2000
Winding down the vine along Austria's Danube
Can't you just see yourself, on a ship cruising the Danube from one charming Austrian wine town to another, sipping their world-class wines while wondering how you ever got so lucky? This is a possible dream, the more so because the Danube and many wine towns it connects -- Krems, Spitz, etc. -- are...
Human error caused JAL jet collision at Haneda Airport: safety board
The wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 5, three days after the crash.
Step into ukiyo-e: A digital journey through Japan’s traditional art form
"Ukiyoe Immersive Art Exhibition" includes an installation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.”
Toyota to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration ceremony
This is set to be the first time Toyota will donate to a U.S. inauguration ceremony.
South Korean temple pledges to return Buddha statue next spring
The Kanzeon Bodhisattva statue, which was taken from Kannonji Temple in Nagasaki Prefecture to South Korea by a South Korean thief ring
North Korean hacker group behind DMM Bitcoin’s cryptocurrency leak
A North Korean hacker group is believed to have planted a virus on the computer of an employee at Ginco — a company that was entrusted with the deposit and withdrawal of DMM Bitcoin’s virtual currency — through a fake job recruitment message sent via LinkedIn.
Step into ukiyo-e: A digital journey through Japan’s traditional art form
"Ukiyoe Immersive Art Exhibition" includes an installation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.”
High levels of PFAS found in water from 44 private suppliers across Japan
The Self-Defense Forces facilities are believed to have become sources of PFAS contamination because they used firefighting foam containing the toxic chemicals in the past.
For baseball fans, 2024 brought The Summer of Shohei Ohtani
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani reacts to a standing ovation from fans after hitting his 50th home run of the season, against the Marlins in Miami on Sept. 19.
Trump's Pentagon policy pick pushed for Japan to spend 3% of GDP on defense
Elbridge Colby (center) speaks at the Threat and the Strategy panel during the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in September 2019.
A brief history of ‘osechi ryōri,' Japan's edible tradition for the new year
Japan's traditional New Year cuisine has a long history, though modern developments have led to slight changes in the way things work.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?
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