I was curious about wines and how do the go with what type of food…This article answers most of my questions…cheers ! Wine and food matching is complex. Many books have been written on this topic. However, before you submit to the many complicated or inflexible rules presented by apparently trustworthy experts, remember that in the1890s the best restaurants in America regularly served sweet white Bordeaux, like Barsac and Sauternes, with oysters and other shellfish. This is exactly the opposite of today’s taste. |
Although history supports evidence of the earliest wine making dating back to the Stone Age, it is the Romans who first professed to enjoy food & wine as a regular fare. While we have moved on from the simple food offered thousands of years ago, the assortment of food choices and the enormous variety of wines available today can seem overwhelming. The rules for matching food and wine, in this day, have relaxed a bit. Nevertheless the fact is that certain flavors mix better together than others. It’s just a question of knowing what they are. |
We recommend that the first thing you do after choosing the food is to drink wine that you enjoy. Forget the rules. Overlook all those shoulds and shouldn’ts. Forget about complicated rules for choosing the right wine to enhance the food on the table. This is not a perfect science. Just use common sense and follow your own instincts. |
Choose a wine that you want to drink all by itself. Or, if you like a particular wine and want to drink it with everything that you eat - why not? Even with all the hoopla regarding matching food and wine, you will most likely drink most of the wine without the accompaniment of food. You will drink it before the meal, during cooking and after you’ve finished your meal. Therefore, you will not go wrong if you make sure the food is good and the wine is too. So, even if the match is not perfect, you will still enjoy what you’re drinking. |
| Wine and Food Common Sense |
This is where common sense comes in. The old rule about white wine with fish and red wine with meat made perfect sense in the days when white wines were light and fruity and red wines were tannic and weighty. But today, when whites can be heavier and fuller-bodied than reds, color coding does not always work. T here is a whole new world of wine out there and better matches to be made. |
As a general rule of thumb, red wines are heavier and more complex than white wines. White wines are usually a good wine for beginners because they are initially more appetizing to novices since they often tend to be sweeter. |
Red wine is made from grape juice that contains skins, seeds, and stems. Leaving juice to mix together with the woody bits (known as maceration) causes the finished product to contain tannins. To understand the term tannin just think about a strong cup of tea. That woody taste is tannin. It can lend a wonderful complexity to a red wine. |
Many flavors are common in both white and red wines. Both can be spicy, buttery, leathery, earthy or floral. But the apple, pear and citrus flavors in many white wines seldom show up in reds, and the currant, cherry and stone fruit flavors of red grapes usually do not appear in whites. |
| More Common Sense In Matching Food with Wine |
| Simple wine with simple food … |
| As a starting point, it makes sense to enjoy everyday wines with everyday food. Save those fancier bottles for more elaborate meals and special occasions. |
| Hearty food needs a hearty wine … |
Otherwise it will make a lighter wine taste bland.
A light dish requires a light wine …
Fresh seafood for example, is best enjoyed with a delicate, relatively ‘neutral’ wine such as Muscadet.
Weight is not the only consideration …
Wine and food can be full of flavor and aroma without being heavy. Aromatic Thai dishes are enhanced by equally aromatic whites such as New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. For Indian-style curries, try late harvest Gewurztraminer or a young Syrah-rich wine from the Rhone.
Match acidity …
Try to match the same acidity levels in your food to your wine. A tomato salad has a high acidity and needs a crisp, slightly tart, un-oaked white to go with it. Likewise, you need a fresh, tangy sweet wine (high acidity) to go with a fresh fruit dessert (more high acidity). |
| Rules For Matching Food & Wine |
For those of you who wish to follow the rules, here are a few for matching wine and food: |
| Sweet wine with sweet food
Sour foods with acidic wines
Bitter with bitter
Salty food with acidic wines
Red wine with red meat
White wine with white meat |
| Neither the wine nor the food should not dominate one and over the other.
Consider the finish on the wine, wrapping the whole dish together.
How tannic is the wine? High tannin would need high protein.
The acidity of the wine should be considered, for example, to cut through a rich risotto.
When matching dessert wines, think of the desserts sugar strength, bitterness and sour notes as this will determine the sweetness of the best wine choiceRead more at www.rackwine.com |
Today I got to know what is dofollow and nofollow all about…thought of sharing that with you… | What are “Do Follow” blogs? |
“Do follow” is the opposite of “No-Follow”. Wordpress blogs, by default, use the HTML nofollow attribute on links that point away from the blog. This no follow attribute comes into play with the posting of blog comments. The no-follow tag tells the search engines NOT to follow the link to any other web sites. |
Using no follow also makes sense because there are blog spammers out there who will, and have, posted blog spam comments solely for the benefit of getting more incoming links to their site, which helps page rank. That makes sense! |
The logic behind using no follow is, it’s good for the blog since there will be fewer outgoing links and therefore less “link bleed”, leading to better Google page rank. Sounds good! |
Do Follow blogs are going against the norm and turning the No-Follow tag off, enabling do-follow of out going comment links. |
If you’re like me, you want people to comment on your blog posts. You want more of an interactive community. That’s what Web 2.0 is about – community, relationships, and user created content. |
But, how do you encourage people to comment on your blog posts? You give them something in return. You give them an outgoing link to their website, when they make a quality comment on your blog. You also allow the search engine to follow that link to their website by using the do follow attribute. |
You also need to let people know that you are a Do Follow Blog. Some visitors will have no idea what that means, but those who do know what it means will appreciate it and will often leave a comment. |
You will notice I now have a Do Follow notice in the upper right hand column of my blog. This graphic is courtesy of Randa Clay who is a Do Follow advocate. I’m letting others know that they are welcome to leave relevant comments, and letting them know what my expectations are. Read more at followlist.com |
This is my new blog on 2nd wordpress. Go thru my first post and let me know what do you think!  URL: shareups.wordpress.com
This is one famous question which almost all professional blogger gets to tumble upon…may be here is some light… :-) One Blog and Many Topics, or Many Blogs with One Topic? |
| Suppose one blogger has got multiple interests , like Books, Gadgets and Cars. Will he get more readers and traffic when he writes about them in separate blogs, or if he writes about all of them on a single blog? |
| Both strategies can work. Let’s analyze the pros and cons of each of them. |
Pros of One Blog with Many Topics
The largest advantage of this model is that you will have a very strong domain, since it will receive the link juice from all the different topics and content channels. Over time it will become relatively easy to rank for keywords because of the high trust that the root domain has. That is why websites like Wikipedia or Digg rank so well in Google.
Another advantage of this model is the unlimited potential for expansion. Provided your domain is a generic one, you will be able to add and remove topics over the time without needing to rework the brand.
Cons of One Blog with Many Topics
The main disadvantage of one large blog covering many topics is the fact that it will require a huge amount of time, energy and money to become successful.
Why? Because you would need to shape it as a content portal. That means that you should have a design that supports the portal structure, different channels inside it, and different writers to keep each of the channels updated regularly.
Trying to do a content portal by yourself and with no investment would probably yield mediocre results.
Pros of Many Blogs with One Topic
The advantage of having many blogs, each with a niche topic, is the fact that it will be easier to attract loyal visitors on each of those sites. The sharper your focus, the easier it is to convince a first time visitor that he should come back tomorrow or subscribe to your RSS feed.
Secondly, niche websites are also easier to be monetized. Advertisers like to be able to control the audience that is going to see their ads.
Cons of Many Blogs with One Topic
The disadvantage of having many blogs, each with a niche topic, is the time and energy that you will need to spend managing them. You will inevitably need to worry about the web hosting, web design, software, maintenance so on. The higher the number of sites you have, the more time they will consume with those tasks.
Additionally, there is always the risk to spread yourself too thin. If you can’t keep up with the content production and promotion activities on all the blogs, they will probably tank over the time.
Conclusion
As you can see there are pros and cons related to both strategies. Choosing one over the other is a personal decision.
My preferred strategy is to go with niche blogs. You just need to make sure that your niche is not too narrow. For example creating a blog about “Nepal Photography” would probably not be a good idea. If you choose “Digital Photography,” however, you should be fine.
I also prefer to focus on the development of one website or blog at a time. Trying to do too many things at once is one of the most common business mistakes.
What do you think?
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While doing a web-research on ‘Blogging and it’s virtues’,I was stuck by an Idea. Now it’s like this; I frequently save a lot of information on the aforesaid wherein I have to copy a small part of paragraph or page and save it as a personal reference. Here I have a specific requirement, I particularly want to collect some info from web which I don’t want to share, as those infos are for my own reference, for my own interpretations. Then today while doing this copy-paste-google-notebook routine I thought that what if I can avoid this copy-paste business, then came the thought of amplify. Yes! I can surely use amplify for saving notes or clips from web pages, but then it’s little workaround which one would use to get through when it comes to reopening/referring those amplogs. Yes I know we have a privacy setting thing so that I can make my amplogs private!
But won’t it be better
# if I was able to see all my amplogs as short titles in a quick-loading list view.
# if I can make some kind of folders in which I can sort my amplogs,
# if I can ‘bind’ these different amplogs of one folder into a ‘book’, for eg. if I have 12 amplogs in the folder named blogging virtues and my research is over then what I do is bind those amplogs into one ‘book’ titled blogging virtues.
# Won’t it be then possible to have an option to download this book.
I think right now amplify is a bit socially-oriented-notes/clips sharing online platform but when it comes down to taking a bunch of private notes it’s little slow and inefficient. And one reason I come up with a suggestion like this is because I think the task of notes taking is very relative to social amplifying, so why not put both the things together, moreover I can stay longer on my fav amplify instead of working with that sluggish plain google notebook or that ever annoying ‘evernote’.
I think I have managed to put up in here what I want to say. Having said that, I say with all honesty, whatever amplify is giving to us right now is simply outstanding, I hardly remember a day when I have not visited amplify at least once.
So first of all thank you Eric for such a wonderful service as amplify. I see it ever-evolving. Secondly what I have wrote above is just a kind suggestion. Yet I will continue to savour the yummy ‘flavours’ of cusine called AMPLIFY! :-)
| That’s nice of you, for showing more interest… |
So here are some selective shades of my work. Sagregated into categories as sutaible. |
| Please leave a comment on what do you think of all my designs, your comments act as a huge encouragement for me, like a fuel which keeps me going on… That’s it… |
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization, where it can monitor all other system activity. He’s finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before). During installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features he’d like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.
1. a “Don’t remind me again” button
2. a Minimize button
3. An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of cache and other system resources
4. An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system’s hardware probe feature to be much more useful.
I myself decided to avoid the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 7.0. Even here, however, I found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 7.0 on top of Girlfriend 6.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 6.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug that I should have known about. Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conficts over shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, The uninstall program for Girlfriend 6.0 doesn’t work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another thing — all versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
This one is the latest post, from my new blog “design life notes” A couple of days ago I happened to create a brand new Delicious Bookmarking account, reasons…as my old account was too much hotchpotch, moreover the email by which I created tha old account has been disposed by me due to some dreadful reasons, so I went to delicious site and clicked the ‘join now’ link to create a new account, surprisingly it asked me to log-in to a yahoo account. Fortunately I had one yahoo account, so I logged in then I was redirected to the page which asked me to whether I want to create a new delicious account, yes…thus I got a new delicious account, but now every time I want to sign in to my delicious account, I need to go thru this process of logging in to the yahoo account and then getting to the delicious account. This in itself is quite frustrating, I did research on ‘how to create a delicious account without a yahoo account’, the answer is NO…you cannot do so now. |
One of the delicious support team member wrote in a forum, “All new accounts need to be created using a Yahoo ID, I’m curious as to why signing in with your yahoo account is more annoying than having to sign in with another account. I realise that creating an account takes more time now, but once that’s done, logging in is just entering a username and password, or are there other issues that you have?“ |
A number of problems pop-up in this case, let us see what are the ill-effects of these new changes in the famous delicious service… |
1. Creating an account on delicious takes more time now that what it took before. |
2. There are now two sign-in API’s for delicious, one for old del.icio.us type accounts & one for the new yahoo-aided delicious accounts. And sadly they have not been merged together & neither will in the near future. (as informed by the delicious support guy). |
3. There are people arround who really don’t use any yahoo services (you think of the reasons  ) so if you want to use delicious now then you have to compulsorily use yahoo…one of my friend says “i just don’t want a yahoo-account because i don’t need the yahoo-services at all, so damn this delicious I will move to some other bookmarking services instead” |
4. As you don’t get a direct username & password for delicious, instead you get a yahoo ID so you can’t use a Chrome Extension because Yahoo! ID is not a Delicious account. |
5. New accounts can only be made through Yahoo ID. That means you are using webmail. Most of the institutes & offices of education and schools BLOCK webmail. So, Delicious is effectively shut off from the public education sector. |
6. Sign in with Yahoo ID doesn’t work with most of the service providers on Android devices, while it looked so easy when the login was directly on delicious. |
So you see Delicious is in a fix now, and statistics say it’s popularity is dropping down with time…Since delicious service has been taken over by Yahoo!. It seems that Yahoo only have a balance sheet in mind and of course there is nothing wrong with doing business profitably but not at the cost of customer-satisfaction…the buisness will surely settle out in the end. |
I have been using LASTPASS since more than 6 months now, and I am more than satisfied with what I am getting from the web password management service. The reason why I started using Lastpass was because I wanted to keep all my web-account logins and passwords handy as I had pain in remembering more than a 200+ logins each time I sit on a new computer. So like wise I now want my bookmarks to be mobile for me…i.e be online and easily accessible…so I am on a hunt for which service is best to keep my bookmarks online…the first search result when I googled “best online bookmarking service” was this, Thought of sharing it with you all…cheers
The 5 best online bookmarking services
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 You probably browse the web from home, at work and possibly on your smartphone. If you do, storing bookmarks in the browser can be annoying and counterproductive. You need an online bookmarking tool to have easy access to all your favorite web sites regardless of which device you use to get online. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social bookmarking services.
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- A certain amount of users is essential. Otherwise the social aspect looses relevance.
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- Advanced search tools is a must — before you know it, you have gathered hundreds of bookmarks.
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- There has to be extensive documentation, FAQ and/or help pages.
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- Import and export tools are important. Import is necessary for adding old bookmarks from your browser, export is important for backup (the Magnolia disaster has made the need for backup painfully evident). You also need export to ensure that your bookmarks can go with you to another service if you decide to switch.
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- A good bookmarking service should have RSS feeds of users, tags, groups etc.
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- A blog is good (although not strictly a requirement). I like to keep up to date about new features, bugs, bug fixes and more.
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 Diigo is fun! It is my absolute favorite. This service has an enormous amount of tools and features — it is more than a bookmarking service, it is a complete tool for online research.
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 Delicious is owned by Yahoo. It is by far the most popular social bookmarking tool out there, but it is not rich in features. It is easy to use, though, and has a huge community, which makes it a very valuable tool.
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 Furl is part of the Looksmart family and has been around forever (like Delicious, Furl launched in 2003).
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 Mister Wong is developed in Germany and is Europe’s largest bookmarking service. Though it started in German, Mister Wong is now available in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and French.
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 Simpy is another old-timer in the world of social bookmarking. Unlike Furl , Simpy hasn’t updated its look much. This gives it an odd but cute retro look. This does not compromise ease of use, though.
Read more at www.pandia.com |
It really makes a big difference in our day to day life…the kind of building/home you stay in…this one exudes strength, boldness & a magnanimous expression towards life… The Residential Architecture Design is located on a rural area adjacent to Mexico City.if you want to build An Architecture home like this one you have to prepare money average 60,000.00 USD for employs and standard material and designed with simple structure.In the right hands, all it takes to create a modern architectural design is an innovative approach. For Mexican Dellekamp Arquitectos, it was all about shape. The award-winning, forward-thinking architects designed House on a Slope based on what they had to work with – a modest $60,000US budget, a sloping property, and standard materials and solutions. But this striking, rectangular house plan is anything but “standard.” Measuring 130m2, this contemporary house in Desierto de Los Leones, Mexico City stands out for its unusual form. Three solid facades and one glazed facade establish the irregular squared silhouette of this modern house. “To emphasize the diagonal tensions of the topography and the house, the rectangles making up the facades turn into triangles simply by painting them in two colors,” according to the architects. |
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Sure I did be happy to design for you in both the cases…with some charges & without them also.
