Acknowledging

When I began writing the acknowledgement page for my new book, it was easy to think of the people I immediately wanted to acknowledge and give thanks to – my kids, my good friends, my obvious teachers, my editor and publisher.   After the first draft, more names came to me – the scientists who laid the groundwork for what I was doing and even my high school chemistry teacher who...
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Feminine Soul of Wine?

Does wine have a soul? Isn’t it transformed grape juice?  Does it pick up soul along with spirit? When I look at art or listen to a piece of music, some of it touches my soul. When I first began photographing cells, molecules, then wine under the scope My soul was  touched by the exquisite beauty. In wine especially.  And while exploring beauty, symbols began appearing that I could link...
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Instinctual Intelligence

Naming wines If you ever have wondered where do our words come from, particularly our words for food, wine and abstract ideas? Read Naming Nature: The Clash between instinct and science by Carol Kaesuk...
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