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How Local is Local?new
From barley to bottle in Virginia.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
11-08-2011 |
Food+Drink
Speed is colorblindnew
Post-racial America thrives at the Eastside Speedway drag strip
C-Ville Weekly |
Kyle Daly |
07-12-2011 |
Recreation
Virginia's Neglected Patch of Civil War Battlefieldsnew
Over a century after the real skirmish, the Battle of Waynesboro unfolds on a privately held piece of land that once belonged to Confederate Major William Patrick.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
06-28-2011 |
History
Drinking From the Gardennew
Incorporate summer produce into cocktail time.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
06-21-2011 |
Food+Drink
Virginia Lacrosse Teams Believe in Life After Lovenew
University of Virginia men's and women's lacrosse teams advance in NCAA tourney, deal with grave loss.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
05-18-2010 |
Sports
Tags: George Huguely, Yeardley Love
How I Learned to Stop Eating Junk in 28 Daysnew
One reporter spends 28 days following a “reduced fat, high fiber, controlled carbohydrate” menu.
C-Ville Weekly |
Caite White |
04-28-2010 |
Food+Drink
Mike London is New Head Football Coach at the University of Virginianew
Part of the pleasure of sports is the nakedness of its emperors. The head football coach might be the highest paid employee at a university, but for him there is no such thing as tenure. Seven days after canning its 38th football head coach, UVA had already found No. 39: Mike London.
C-Ville Weekly |
Will Goldsmith |
12-16-2009 |
Sports
Oops, My Bad! The Sorry State of Saying 'I'm Sorry'new
The "perfect" apology, if there is such a thing, can be whittled into three pieces, each of which is well illustrated in a letter that Emily Post dreamt up for 1922's Etiquette.
C-Ville Weekly |
Andrew Cedermark |
11-25-2009 |
Commentary
How Do You Smell 200 Things at Once? Drink Winenew
The average human detects 2,000 smells, and experts estimate that there are 200 smells in wine. Compare that to only four tastes, and you can see that wine-tasting should really be called wine-smelling. So why do we rely so much on taste?
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
09-30-2009 |
Food+Drink
We Come to Praise Burgundy's Other White Grapenew
Seldom in a starring role, Aligoté is more often found as a component of Crémant de Bourgogne or in the ubiquitous French cocktail, kir, which is one part cassis and deux parts Aligoté. However, leading a quiet Aligoté revolution in his village of Bouzeron in southern Burgundy is Aubert de Villaine.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
09-16-2009 |
Food+Drink
Finding Great Australian Wines Out in the Bushnew
I spent a few days last month in the main winemaking region of Western Australia, Margaret River, tasting a lot of its trademark Cab Sauvignon and Shiraz and Semillon-Sauvignon Blanc blends. We got our palates on some more unexpected stuff, too.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
09-09-2009 |
Food+Drink
No Need to Wait for Cooler Weather -- Go Ahead and Throw Your Red Wine on Icenew
There are still a few rules to this seemingly unruly idea -- the first relates to temperature and the other pertains to type.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
08-26-2009 |
Food+Drink
New Federal Food Safety Regulations Won't Impact Small Farmsnew
Locavores may have raised their hackles last week when reading that the Obama administration released a series of new proposals to regulate a number of foods, including eggs, poultry and beef. But farms with fewer than 3,000 laying hens would be exempt from the new rules on salmonella testing and refrigeration. The exception reflects small farms' reduced operation scale and the uneven costs these would levy on them.
C-Ville Weekly |
Melissa Batchelor Warnke |
07-22-2009 |
Food+Drink
Viva la Vinho Verde! Cheers to Portugal's Green Goddessnew
Termed "green wine" for its youthfulness rather than its color, Vinho Verde is low in alcohol (typically 9-11 percent), high in acidity, and often retails at less than $10 a bottle. Your goal is to drink it within a year after bottling, at its first flush of youth.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
07-08-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Vinho Verde, wine
The Photographer's Art of Imposing on Her Subjectsnew
No matter what the subject, Sylvia Plachy expresses an awkward intimacy through her lens.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
06-10-2009 |
Art
Tags: Sylvia Plachy, photography
