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London Eateries Slash Wine Prices; Haggis Dim Sum Honors Burns: Food Buzz Le Bouchon Breton has joined the
ranks of London restaurants lowering the price of fine wines to
draw in customers and to get us all drinking again. Among the
bargains: La Tache, Domaine de la Romanee Conti 1995, down to
1,293 pounds ($2,150) from 3,900 pounds, and Charmes-Chambertin,
Domaine Perrot-Minot 2001, cut to 105 pounds from 220 pounds.
Let’s hope our employers appreciate the effort that is being
made. Just think: The more you drink, the more you save.
Nokia Netbook's Beauty Proves Only Skin-Deep: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky So near, yet so far.
Bentley's $273,000 Speed Demon Is Slow to Drink Biofuel: Jason H. Harper The elite are in trouble. Those
exotic carmakers who produce fewer than 10,000 cars a year are
looking at future fuel regulations and are realizing they need a
plan. Fast.
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Bentley’s $273,000 Speedster Drags on Biofuel: Jason H. Harper The elite are in trouble. Those
exotic carmakers who produce fewer than 10,000 cars a year are
looking at future fuel regulations and are realizing they need a
plan. Fast.
Buick Cruises Into 21st Century With Handsome $34,000 LaCrosse While I’m sure I was once aware of
the Buick brand, its cultural significance is now right up there
with the cancellation of the TV series “Wings” and Barbra
Streisand’s last concert tour.
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Ramsay’s Right-Hand Chef Mark Sargeant Quits After 13 Years Mark Sargeant, who joined Gordon
Ramsay 13 years ago and worked his way through the kitchens to
become one of the chef’s closest friends and allies, has
resigned and will join another restaurant company next month.
London Eateries Slash Wine Prices; Haggis Dim Sum Honors Burns Le Bouchon Breton has joined the
ranks of London restaurants lowering the price of fine wines to
draw in customers and to get us all drinking again. Among the
bargains: La Tache, Domaine de la Romanee Conti 1995, down to
1,293 pounds ($2,150) from 3,900 pounds, and Charmes-Chambertin,
Domaine Perrot-Minot 2001, cut to 105 pounds from 220 pounds.
Let’s hope our employers appreciate the effort that is being
made. Just think: The more you drink, the more you save.
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Getty Heir, S.F. Mayor Test Waterless Urinals at Napa Winery I arrived at Napa Valley’s newest
environmentally friendly winery in a two-ton SUV and parked in a
space reserved for low-emission vehicles. The area was shrouded
in fog, so hopefully nobody noticed.
Oldest Wine Auction Raises $7.5 Million on Demand for Burgundy The world’s oldest charity wine
auction, held every year in France for the Hospices de Beaune,
last night raised a hammer total of 5 million euros ($7.5
million) with fees, the second-highest in its 150-year history.
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Sanctuary That Saves Racehorses From Slaughterhouse Needs Help There’s a gated community on Long
Island’s south shore where valuable real estate is set aside for
the homeless and unemployed, former professional athletes, now
too old or injured to compete: thoroughbred horses.
Springer CEO Saves Potsdam Villa to Recall Cold War Spy Swaps Mathias Doepfner, the chief
executive officer of Axel Springer AG, drives past Villa
Schoeningen twice a day -- once on his way to work in Berlin and
again on his way home to Potsdam.
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