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    What Pompeii Was Like

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    kind of food the people of Pompeii ate. From the pans the people used scientist learned what kind of bread they ate, and people still eat it today. The scientists even found out that the people of Pompeii liked wine. Also from the label on the bottle scientists figured out what kind of wine they drank.

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    At the age of four I had a dream that one day I would play tennis at place called Wimbledon. I remember so clearly waking up that morning and going to my mom to ask her where Wimbledon was. From a young age tennis was my most passionate sport. Tennis was to be the thing that would challenge me far beyond anything I could ever have imagined because I learnt that “Sometimes you have to surrender before you can win.” According to my first tennis teacher, Irene, I had great potential. At the age of eight

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    Generally, at The Arc, we like to think that we’re ahead of the curve, but it seems like our summer 2017 vacation destination was right on trend, Portugal. The Algarve, Lisbon, and Porto were on everyone’s list, Instagram feed, and mind. The country has been a long time favorite vacation destination of Europeans, with the Algarve being the ultimate stop. For those unfamiliar, it runs the southern coast of the country and is home to many of its most picturesque beaches. Think sweeping cliffs, pristine

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    It was exotic and expensive. The author says “So fine was the calibration of wine with status that drinkers at a Roman banquet, or convivium, would be served different wines depending on their positions in society.” The richest drank the finest wines while poorer citizens drank lesser vintages and so on the social ladder. Wine was also religious. Wine influence on the history of the society started in ancient Greece, wine became the main export of a vast seaborne trade, helping to spread Greek culture

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    How Did Wine Affect Trade in the Roman Empire? Wine was a popular drink back in ancient Rome. Many people desired the consumption of wine as it grew to be an important factor in Rome’s trade. Wine allowed Rome to control more territory. Also many new people started writing books on how wine was produced like Cato the Censor, Varro, and Columella. These works provided insight on how wine played a part in Roman culture. Consumption of wine started bringing taxes on the quantity people drank. However

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    course of twenty-six generations and six centuries, the family has become one of the most prominent wine producers in the Tuscan viticulture. The first documented account of the family making a wine dates back to 1184 and Rinuccio di Antinoro, the originator of the Antinori line. The Antinori family did not start off in the winemaking business however, they started off as silk producers who made wine as a hobby. On May, 19th, 1395, Giovanni di Piero Antinori became a member of the “Arte Fiorentina”

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    Napa Valley Wine Essay

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    people work in the wine industry and the Napa Valley wouldn’t be even close to as thriving as it is without it. When people that don’t live here, think of Napa, they think wine. Yet most people, if at all like me, have no idea how the simple process of turning grapes into an alcoholic beverage works or where it came from. The concept of making wine sounds very strange, you let grape juice sit for a long time until it has enough bacteria decompose it and it becomes alcoholic. Wine dates back to far

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    Muckraking Research Paper

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    Last December Police in Italy found 7000 tons of phony olive oil headed for supermarkets, and stores all over the world(Whitaker). The agricultural mafia or agromafia of Italy has taken over the food industry in Italy, and many of the traditional Italian foods that people and tourists eat are phony. Tom Mueller, a journalist who has lived in Italy for twenty years, and routinely speaks with food investigators, and producers said, “Easily half of the bottles that are sold as extra virgin in Italian

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    The CEO small start up distillery named La Mancha Distilling co. in the southwest city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city known for its home to televisions Series “Breaking Bad”. Craig Cervantes the CEO of La Mancha Distilling, has filed for, and now has a patent pending for a new type of revolutionary Spirts Aging process. Craig Cervantes has come up with a new revolutionary Patented process that stands to change the whole game of manufacturing Aged Spirts such as Bourbon, Scotch, Whiskey, Rums

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    tree. We produced two bottles (750ml each) of high quality Marula wine. Our first bottle of wine (Valley Wine) was our control and our second bottle of wine (Maritchi) contained our changed variable.After reading up on various wine recipes, we noticed that many suggested the use of pectinase in the fermentation process. We thus decided to use the addition of litchi pulp and juice as our changed variable in our second bottle of wine because we wanted to test if it would act like a natural pectic enzyme

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