The Week in Viral Videos
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From Sesame Street's Fox News slam to a Philippines prison's Queen jam, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
How Wine Became Like Fast Food
Keith Wallace is the founder of the Wine School of Philadelphia.
The bottle you'll enjoy with dinner tonight likely wasn't produced at a winery, or by a winemaker. Instead, most American bottles are little more than grape-based processed food product.
Perfect Pairing: Wine and a Book
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Each week, Gary Vaynerchuk, star of Wine Library TV, will pick a wine to go with a new book. This week's selection: a 2005 Montepulciano paired with a novel about striving young entrepreneurs.
The Great Wine Cover-up
Keith Wallace is the founder of the Wine School of Philadelphia.
Do you know what you were really drinking last night? The dirty secret about wine is that it frequently contains wood chips, chemicals, and something called Mega Purple.
The Secrets of Matchmaking
Katie Workman is the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Marketing Officer of Cookstr.com, a Web site devoted to great, tested recipes from chefs and cookbook authors. She writes about food for various blogs and Web sites. Katie is on the board of City Harvest, and actively involved in Share Our Strength. She lives in New York City with her husband her two boys, ages 6 and 9.
Just in time for the stickiest days of summer, here's a master class in matching great wines with the season's hardest-to-pair ingredients.
The Great Cabernet Ripoff
Keith Wallace is the founder of the Wine School of Philadelphia.
A Wall Street-like bubble has engulfed the world's favorite red wine, causing exorbitant prices for inferior grapes. Keith Wallace uncorks the wine industry's dirty secret.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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