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Richard Parsons takes the Time Warner corporate jet to his 20-acre winery in Montalcino the NYT reveals in a story on executives hijacking the corporate jet for personal use. But just which winery is it? The media baron owns the Brunello Il Palazzone. The winery web site assures us that he is “personally present at harvest time and all other key moments of the wines [sic] development.” Now we know how he gets there…(NYT)
The privately held E&J Gallo, second largest wine producer in the world with an estimated 75 million cases sold last year and 4,600 employees in 90 countries, rebrands as “Gallo Family Vineyards.” Um, OK!
Nicholas Lander has a good review of the four-hour James Beard award ceremony in New York. [FT]
Time Out New York reviews a dozen destinations for gourmets this summer. While wasting two-thirds of the page (including photo) on the always overcrowded Taste of Chicago, the brief piece finally gets around to mentioning Moto and Alinea–but not for why they are important to New Yorkers. These are the places where New Yorkers can try sous-vide cooking, currently undergoing a de facto ban in NYC. Conversely, Chicagoans can travel to NYC to try fois gras, now outlawed in Chicago! Reciprocal gastro tourism!
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