Thursday, March 11, 2010

Wine and Art: March 20- April 19, 2010


Filed under Art

Begin your Spring with us and take part in a one of a kind wine and art colorandaroma experience.
If you are an artist, please send your contact information and samples of your work to art@colorandaroma.com for a chance to be featured!
Stay tuned for more…
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The Spring 2010 Alternative Season!

Hold on to your wine glasses everyone because colorandaroma is going places where no wine magazine has ever gone before.
We will be elegantly blending wine, art, music and entertainment from March 20 through June 20, 2010!
Stay tuned for our special guest contributors…
Cheers,
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Pairing on Canvas: Merging Food, Wine and Art


Filed under Art, Cuisine

Pairing on Canvas: Merging Food, Wine and Art
By Liz Goldner
At the turn of the last century, French artists and art lovers uninhibitedly imbibed in the pleasures of fine food, wine and art.
These incurable sybarites, including Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec, lived life to the hilt, creating Impressionist canvases throughout the day, cooking up a feast [...]

“Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard” by Larry Levis


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An excerpt of a poem by Larry Levis, available here and here.
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Picking grapes alone in the late autumn sun—
A short, curved knife in my hand,
Its blade silver from so many sharpenings,
Its handle black.
I still have a scar where a friend
Sliced open my right index finger, once,
In a cutting shed—
The same [...]