San Francisco Wine Event Company, The Right Blend Presents Wine, Cooking and a Movie Event Series Launched in Dogpatch
December 31, 2011 by admin
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San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) December 29, 2011
San Francisco wine event company, The Right Blend partners with Hands on Gourmet to present a series of culinary-wine-movie experiences, starting with an inaugural event on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. in Dogpatch, located at 2325 Third St., number 409 in San Francisco. The series will continue every third Thursday of each month. These unique “Wine, Cooking and a Movie” events are open to the public for $ 125 per person. Seating is limited to 40 participants, and early reservations are recommended. Reservations close one week before each event.
We envision these events as enhanced dinner parties, President Molly Fuller of Hands on Gourmet said.
Founder and CEO Clarisse Kostrzewski of The Right Blend said, They’re part mixer, part cooking class and part wine-education experience where participants will come together to enjoy fine wines and prepare a meal designed around the theme of a movie.
As guests are guided through the steps of prepping their meal, Kostrzewski will mingle and introduce new wines, pointing out nuances in blind tastings and introducing guests to the surprises of wine-food pairings. When dinner is ready, everyone will sit down together to enjoy their creations and take in the film that inspired the evening’s menu.
The first event will feature Big Night, with an Italian-themed menu and wine selections. Future nights may feature Eat Drink Man Woman, Chocolat, Babette’s Feast, Mostly Martha and other enticing films that celebrate the joys of coming together for great food and wine.
Hands On Gourmet creates interactive culinary experiences to build a community around food. It offers dynamic hands-on cooking classes with interactive menus for private parties and corporate team-building events, custom designed for groups of any size, anytime and anywhere.
The Right Blend offers personalized events and wine-education experiences that bring the enjoyment of wines to corporate and social gatherings of all sizes and personalities. Customized wine-consulting services are also available for event planners and caterers.
For more information about “Wine, Cooking and a Movie,” contact The Right Blend at 415-722-3639 or view The Right Blend on the web at http://www.trbevents.com.
About The Right Blend
The Right Blend offers a range of event planning and educational experiences centered around the joys of building a relationship with wine. Clarisse F. Kostrzewski, founder and CEO, and The Right Blend staff create personalized social and corporate events team building, wine-education experiences, wine tasting parties, special events, and more that allow their clients and guests or colleagues to celebrate, savor intimate moments, build strong team morale and make lifelong memories.
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From Amusement Park Spas to Snow Showers to Beauty Coaching: SpaFinder Forecasts Top 10 Global Spa Trends for 2012
December 31, 2011 by admin
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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 06, 2011
From amusement park spas to cold treatments like snow showers to the arrival of beauty coaches, SpaFinder today released its annual Spa Trend Report forecasting the global trends and ideas that will reshape spa and wellness in 2012.
Now in its ninth year, the influential annual report is based on analyses from SpaFinder Research and its team of experts who visit hundreds of spa and wellness businesses around the world every year, as well as interviews with leading industry analysts, and data and feedback collected from SpaFinders partnership with over 15,000 spas, yoga, Pilates and fitness studios, wellness practitioners and salons worldwide.
The Spa Trend Report is developed under the direction of SpaFinder President Susie Ellis, a contributing editor to NewBeauty magazine, a founding board member of The Global Spa Summit, and author of the widely read industry blog Susies Spa Blog. Ellis is credited with forecasting numerous industry mega-trends that have taken hold in spas around the world.
After four tough economic years that made experimentation challenging, we are seeing the industry once again pushing the envelope with exciting ideas, delivering more wows, more fun, and quite serious wellness innovation, said Ellis.
Ellis continued: Overall, we see two distinct themes emerging. One is the industry innovating with diverse, new sensory experiences and treatmentsfrom cold and vibration therapies to new services for healthy feet. The second is how spas are re-imagining and extending their connection to customers, moving beyond the sporadic visit, to programs aimed at developing long-term relationships such as coaching and online gaming.
The top ten global spa trends for 2012 are:
1.) Healthy Feet Treatments
The delicate human foot contains 33 joints, 26 bones, and 126 muscles, ligaments, and nerves which women regularly squeeze into high heels. Add the fact that the average person spends four hours a day on their feet, and it’s no wonder there is a national epidemic of foot problems like bunions, hammertoes, arthritis, and worse.
Spa-goers can now take care of their troubled tootsies with a variety of treatments and classes. Canyon Ranch SpaClub in Las Vegas offers a comprehensive Healthy Feet program, with computerized gait analysis and treatments in zero-gravity chairs, while Yamuna’s boot camps in New York City teach attendees to improve their posture and strengthen the muscles in their feet. There are even 100% foot-focused med-spas such as California’s Stride Wellbeing, which combines podiatric medical care with a menu of foot-pampering treatments. And podiatrist-overseen medi-pedis are booming, like those served up at celebrity foot doc Margaret Dabbs London centers, or famed French foot doctor Bastien Gonzalez signature pedicures at One&Only spa resorts worldwide.
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2.) Cold and Ice Treatments
From saunas to steam rooms to hot stone massages, spas have traditionally turned up the heat. But while heat promotes relaxation and detoxification, the benefits of icy therapies including better circulation and reduced inflammation of muscles and joints – are finally getting their due.
Infrared saunas, which direct radiant heat into the body without heating the air, are becoming more widespread, and more extreme cold and hot/cold-contrast treatments are on the rise. Every ESPA spa in the world now offers ice rubdowns after saunas, while spa-goers at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas can experience falling snow in its Arctic Ice Room. A new Snow Shower from Thermarium will hit the market soon, and for hardcore ice devotees there’s cryotherapy, where a person spends 2-3 minutes in a chamber cooled to a mind-numbing -120
I NEED YOUR EXPERTISE —–> Wine Refrigerators 40-50 bottles.?
December 31, 2011 by admin
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Question by Blondie: I NEED YOUR EXPERTISE —–> Wine Refrigerators 40-50 bottles.?
I have a ton of relatively good wine and am looking to buy a refrigerator. I’m willing to spend around $ 500 an hope to get something that will last a long time and can hold 40-50 bottles. I just need the wine to be stored properly, not necessarily duel temperatures or the major bells and whistles.
Thank you for all your help.
Best answer:
Answer by plumdumplings
I know this isn’t what you are asking, but I will recommend that you go bigger. You sound pretty serious (just realizing that the dual temperature thing is a load of crpa is a good indicator) and I bet you’ll fill up that 50 bottle unit before you know it!
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Can wine be aged quicker and how good/bad is the result?
December 30, 2011 by admin
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Question by johnnycam_2004: Can wine be aged quicker and how good/bad is the result?
There are products that supposedly can age wine through some kind of magnetism device. Are these for real? The advertising looks good, with testimonials, but there are forums and websites that say they don’t do what they say.
Entering “wine age magnetism” or something like it into the Yahoo! search above will give you some information about these products.
If you have experience with any product of this kind, please give your opinion on how well it worked or didn’t work.
Best answer:
Answer by bs 360 inward oli flip
a wine cellar
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Guilt Free Desserts
December 30, 2011 by admin
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December 30, 2011 by admin
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Wine tasting at Rye's White Vine House
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Sparkling wine tasting Friday at Back Room Wines
They will pour five sparkling wines from all over the world,” said owner Dan Dawson. The tasting is $ 15 per person. The line-up includes: From Italy: Giavi Prosecco Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prima Volta Brut ($ 17); from Spain: Louis Drescher Cava”Amor …
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Oenophilia 6-Bottle Bouquet Wine Rack, Black Reviews
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December 29, 2011 by admin
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Great American Bites: The Student Prince serves up legendary German fare
Yes, you can get your goulash and your standard wiener schnitzel, a thin breaded and fried veal cutlet, but you call also try paprika schnitzel, veal cutlets in a spicy paprika and cream sauce, Harz Mountain jaeger schnitzel, simmered in red wine and …
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Cakes, pickles and the next great grub city: Top food trends for 2012
California produces some of the best wines in the entire world. Over the years it has become known especially as a place that produces incredible, friendly, super-flavorful jammy reds and oaky whites. But the trend in 2011 was the state's amazing, …
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Stay, Play, Wine, and Dine in Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country …
Then catch a top movie or IMAX 3D at Edwards Temecula Stadium 15. Old Town Temecula's Living Yoga Center welcomes walk-ins. Experience flexibility, balance, peace. Lunch at Wilson Creek Winery's Creekside Grille; any two sandwiches (Gerry's Reuben, …
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Latest Ideal Wine Storage Temperature News
December 29, 2011 by admin
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Fun kitchen gadgets: Perfect gifts for foodies
And it even brings those heavier room temperature reds down to more suitable drinking temperatures. Corkcicle really does make it easy to experience any wine at the perfect temperature every time. Inclined to have a cup of tea? …
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Cabernet franc, the food-friendly red
Written by an American named Willie Gluckstern, The Wine Avenger covers such key topics as wine storage, decanting, serving temperature, how to save opened wine, and how to avoid getting ripped off in restaurants. Yet between Gluckstern's rants against …
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Home Exchange Academy
December 28, 2011 by admin
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