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The Long Search for Pizza in South Florida

I love Tutto Pizza in Brickell, I have to get a panini or a pizza anytime I go visit my parents.

1753 SW 3rd Ave
Miami, FL 33129

bitterpurl at 8:43AM on 02/13/08

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

one of my favorite wines (stormhoek) has a screwcap, as long as the wine is great tasting does it matter?

bitterpurl at 6:38PM on 03/21/07

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The Long Search for Pizza in South Florida

If you want NY style pizza, try Michaelangelo's in Sunrise. I find that most of the "brick oven" or "coal fired" places produce a good pie, but it's not that traditional "New York" slice that you seem to be looking for. Michaelangelo's is as close as I've found...

Dominic
the zen kitchen

dvchurch at 9:15AM on 02/13/08

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

It's understandable that winemakers are nervous about whether screwcaps might affect the development of wines that are meant to spend a long time bottle-aging: you honestly don't know until you try it. I'd be interested to know if any major makers are laying down vintages with caps and corks then testing them, or whether they're not prepared to risk losing even a small amount of their annual production.

There are also synthetic corks, which deliver the satisfying 'pop': I believe Bonny Doon has experimented with them, and I've seen plasticorks used elsewhere, more commonly in the UK. But if you're going to take the plastic route, then you might as well go the whole way and adopt the screwcap.

nicksweeney at 1:23AM on 03/28/07

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

Doug, do you mean that screwcaps were the RULE and not the exception? I'm a little confused. Interesting explanation(s), if that's what you mean. :-)

I work at a wine store in Madison, WI, and have found that it's not terribly hard to convince people to give screw caps a try. New Zealand SB's can be absolutely wonderful (see: Cloudy Bay or Kim Crawford). That said, I agree that it's a difficult balance between the Ritual of the Cork and the fear of corkage. Having had corked wine while camping (the horror! no place to buy more!), I'll be taking mostly screw capped whites on trips this summer.

One question -- if you're letting a screw-capped Australian shiraz sit a bit longer, is the cork still better?

Lindsay71 at 5:06PM on 03/23/07

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

On a recent trip to New Zealand we visited many of the wineries in the Marlborough region. Screw caps seemed to be the exception, not the rule, and when we asked someone why they cited three reasons:

1. The expense of importing cork to one of the far corners of the globe.
2. The relative young age of most NZ wineries compared with their European counterparts.
3. The great distance many NZ wines travel when imported to the US and elsewhere. Screwcaps prevent wine from going bad better than cork.

I'm not sure if all of these reasons hold water, but who was I to argue?

Doug at 7:16PM on 03/22/07

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

Boxes, baby!

Boxes!

misssbhavens at 10:57PM on 03/21/07

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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps

What could be bad about anything that enhances the experience of wine drinking? The cork offers a pleasant ritual, but it's hardly a reason to select a particular wine. I welcome screw caps, rubber corks, even boxes, so long as I can enjoy a decent variety of wines at affordable prices.

baboo at 9:24PM on 03/21/07