Sunday, December 27, 2015

...visit Burgandy

The Burgundy ....

For everything I just said about the salmon, the Prime Beef Bolognese is better.  This is hands down the best pasta I have had on the east coast.  It's surprising, I know.  But I'm Italian and therefore an official authority on the matter and I am telling you this bolognese is to die for.  Like, last meal worthy stuff.  All that said, it's not for the faint of heart - this is a big meal.  Come hungry.

region are the attractive countryside including the Morvan Regional Park, the numerous historical towns and villages, and the interesting abbeys and other important monuments.
Wine enthusiasts will also appreciate the chance to see the vineyards and sample such renowned wines as Chablis, Beaune, Macon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, just a few of those produced in this region of France and another excellent reason to visit!
Burgundy covers quite an extensive area and includes four French departments: Cote d'Or (north-east), Nievre (south-west) , Saone-et-Loire (south-east) and Yonne (north-west).

Introduction


A BRIEF HISTORY

Before you visit Burgundy it is useful to know that for several centuries (until 1477) the region was a state independent of France and important religious centre of Europe, and sided with the English against the French during the Hundred Years War.
At that time it was a very rich state, and continues to be one of the most wealthy regions of France to this day: it is the legacies from this golden age of prosperity that still provide many of the major attractions in the region.




Few wine region names stir the hearts and salivary glands of wine lovers quite like Burgundy. Long considered the standard-bearer for Pinot Noir andChardonnay wines for the rest of the world, this French winemaking region produces some of the rarest, most coveted, and most expensive wines in the world. It doesn't help the rest of the wine-loving globe that over fifty percent of the wines made in Burgundy get consumed locally in France. There's more to Burgundy than pricey Pinots and Chardonnays, however, as you'll see from the facts below.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The letters


The song "May Be" as sung by Dave Mason



The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theo van Gogh's wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, devoted many years to compiling the letters about which she wrote: "When as Theo's young wife I entered in 1889, our flat in Vincent's and his brother Theo's, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, spent many years after her husband's death in 1891 compiling the letters, which were first published in 1914. The editor of a 1966 selection of the letters, wrote that Theo "was the kind of man who saved even the smallest scrap of paper", and it is to this trait that we owe the 663 letters from Vincent. By contrast Vincent infrequently kept letters sent him and just 84 have survived, of which 39 were from Theo. Quoted by Vincent : Peace to the world....the Cité Pigalle in Paris, I found at the bottom of a small desk a drawer full of letters from Vincent". Within two years both brothers were dead: Vincent as the result of a gunshot wound, and Theo from illness. Joanna began the task of completing the collection, which was published in full in January 1914. That first edition consisted of three volumes, and was followed in 1952–1954 by a four-volume edition that included additional letters., in 1987, that the letters be organized in date order, and undertaking that began in when 1994 the Van Gogh Letter Project was initiated by the Van Gogh museum. The project consists of a complete annotated collection of letters written by and to Vincent.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

San Marcos


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Wednesday, February 4, 2015