“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”*…
… and vice versa. Case in point: the new Orange County Museum of Art. On the one hand… [architect Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis] created something that is as much a civic plaza as it is a building....
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As Matthew Baldwin demonstrates, the praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing readers at Amazon.com… The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of...
View Article“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water”*…
Martin Riese began as a water sommelier in his native Germany before leaving for the United States in 2011 Katherine LaGrave with the story of America’s first water sommelier believes that the more we...
View Article“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public”*…
… and now two beverage giants are turning their attention to Europe: Coca-Cola and Pernod Ricard plan to debut Absolut Vodka & Sprite as a ready-to-drink pre-mixed cocktail in early 2024, the...
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Fuchsia Dunlop in praise of the multifaceted, deliciously-diverse Chinese cuisine… If you visit a Shaoxing wine factory, you may walk past a stack of crumbly bricks made of some rough, pale, porous...
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