Photograph from dasmart on Flickr Be careful the next time you eat a piece of fruit and want to reproduce its tissue; it might come with its own End User License Agreement: The recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate or reproduce any portion of the produce, including (but not limited to) seeds, stems, tissue and fruit. [via Presurfer]...
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Reporters often put their lives at risk, but how often does harm's way involve grapes? A Brazilian correspondent was filming a segment on national grape varietals in Rio Grande do Sul when suddenly, an evil vine attacked. Actually he got electrocuted. That was no vine—it was a wire! Following the shock, his news anchor colleague did a great job on her feet jumping to sports coverage. While this is a very serious matter, and we probably shouldn't laugh, it's like Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath for this very headline opportunity. Watch the video after the jump....
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, great wine books for your library or that of your grapehead friend or family member. If you are an avid cook, you can probably rattle off the titles of the five cookbooks that you absolutely, positively could not live without. They are the books with the crusty pages, the singed covers, and the broken spines that you turn to again and again when looking for culinary inspiration. So what are the five wine books that I can't live without? My list includes a reference book, a tasting guide, an annual report, a catalogue of grape varieties, and an indispensable guide to food and wine...
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Photographs from Ruby Roman and Chunichi If you love grapes and have a lot of money to blow, go to Japan and try the new variety of Ruby Roman grapes. A bunch of them just sold for 100,000 yen (about $920) at an auction in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. For a 35-grape bunch, that's about $26 per grape, which can grow as large as three centimeters in diameter. The buyer, local upscale hotel Kagaya Inn, gave two grapes to each of their select customers staying in their best rooms. [via Neatorama]...
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