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You sit down to a meal with a bottle of wine on your table. Have you ever thought how that bottle of wine arrived in your home? We’ve become accustomed, in this 21st year of the new century, to high-speed
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By Morris Gut For nearly a generation, some of the most robust Italian regional flavors in our area have been emanating from a gleaming vintage diner across from the Harrison Metro-North station. Chef and owner Dean Vivolo of Trattoria Vivolo
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By Bill Primavera In my current home, as well as the one before that, I have enjoyed having large dining rooms. But in my first apartment in Manhattan, I had only a small eating area off the kitchen containing a
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By Scott Levine Here’s a question: How far is Earth from the sun? Back in the dark corners of your memory, behind the list of all the state capitals and the seven times table, you probably remember what you learned
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In previous columns, I’ve focused on the marvels of the human senses and their influence on our perception of wine. It seems science has undertaken numerous studies to codify and standardize how we interface with wine. Of our five senses,
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By Rabbi Yehuda Heber Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of the Jewish nation’s miraculous exodus from Egyptian slavery, as told in the Bible. This year, Passover is celebrated from Mar. 27 through Apr. 4. A
Read moreBy Salvatore Di Costanzo As many of you know, I practice as a tax accountant as well as an elder law and estate planning attorney. This blog is an example of the interdisciplinary nature of my practice. On March 11,
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By Bill Primavera In the hurly-burly pre-pandemic world that now seems so long ago, I would only occasionally take a break to “go within” and space out in meditation to quiet my mind and body. But now that we’re all
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Wine is both simple and complex, on planes that are both juxtaposed and contraposed. On the one hand, its baseline is as a simple agricultural product, farmed similarly as a multitude of other agricultural products. The simple formula: understand the
Read moreBy Salvatore Di Costanzo It is common practice in New York for banks to “seal” a safe deposit box upon the death of an owner. Surprisingly, this practice applies even in situations where there are joint owners. Many people who
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