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What is the use of buying and storing the best wines if you don’t know how to serve them? While you don’t need to be acquainted with by all the procedures a professional would follow, a little know how can increase the pleasure.

An Italian table is easy to set up. Italians lay a fine table and I can attest that Italian celebration dinners are usually long affairs. Sitting down to eat at four in the afternoon and getting up at eight in the evening is not that unusual when your host is Italian.

There are - aren't chefs lucky? - dozens of different types of pasta and thousands of pasta-based recipes. Spaghetti and lasagna are old favorites, of course.

Tasting notes and comments from a wine tasting in June 2010.

Meat and potatoes. Potatoes and meat. If you want any combination of those two foods, you will find them at a steakhouse.

If you want a cheesecake at least as good as the one your grandmother used to make, a trip to the Cheesecake Factory may be in order.

Everyone has a mother. And nearly every culture celebrates mothers in one way or another. These celebrations of motherhood have been around for centuries. Mothers go through much pain and suffering to bring each of us into the world, and it is for this reason that mothers are recognized for all they

Thanksgiving in Canada can be traced back to Martin Frobisher in 1578. He came from England in search of a way to get to the Orient by going north. While he never found the passage, he did establish what later became Newfoundland and Labrador. His celebration of making it all the way from England to his new home became the first Thanksgiving in North America. More settlers joined Frobisher, and as the settlements expanded, people continued to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Mention Spanish food and everyone picture paella in their minds; some will also be reminded of tapas; and it will conjure the smell of salt and pine trees along with images of deep blue water shinning under the sea so common to the Mediterranean Spanish coast. Spanish food is all that, but travel across the country and dare to try some of the local dishes. You will be hooked.

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