OCK STYLE: Society Ritual, Pairing Beer, Dessert Wines and Rock Photography.

The rise and fall of a high-society ritual. That secondary fermentation in the bottle, which gives the liquid its bubbles. Pairing food with beer, white wine with cheese and dessert wines. Husband-and-wife photography team and backstage photography that rock!

High-society ritual ~

Here’s to the Ladies who Lunched!

"They were the ladies who lunched, impossibly glamorous, hugely entertaining, and utterly without purpose"

Slim Keith and other social lionesses treated lunch as an art form. Bob Colacello recalls an evolving New York ritual ...
Read more: Here’s to the Ladies who Lunched! vanityfair.com

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
~Hans Christian Andersen (quotegarden.com)

delightfully yours,

ockstyle

Bubbly news
Dom Pérignon's New Release Dom Pérignon was a Benedictine monk ... wsj.com

Champagne: Why Is It So Expensive? ~ Why the hell is champagne so expensive? ... uk.askmen.com

Pairing
Will Lyons on Wine: When to Drink White Wine With Cheese ~ Which wine do you serve with cheese? ... wsj.com

What to drink with dessert ~ Dessert wines, as a category, have an appealingly paint-by-numbers purpose ... eatocracy.cnn.com

How to pair food and beer - part one ~ Food and beer matching is relatively new to many people ... bbc.co.uk

Image makers
Two's Company ~ Kate Moss and More Inside Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's "Pretty Much Everything" ... style.com

The Photography of Andrew Kent ~ By 1978 Andrew Kent had the one thing any music photographer desperately wants ... sunvalleymag.com

Wine notes
Buyers and Cellars: How A Gentleman Sells His Wine Collection ~ The story of one man's sale of his wine, and maybe a little more than that ... gq.com

Margrit Mondavi to publish 'frank' ~ decanter.com

Trendy
Bonnie Stern: Bacon? Chocolate? Cupcakes? That’s so 2011 ~ Culinary trend talk every January makes it sound like things have changed overnight. But ... nationalpost.com

Chocolate Times
* All about chocolate: 26 things to know about chocolate ~ Almost universally loved, it once used as currency and ... finedininglovers.com

* Our favorite recipes for National Chocolate Cake Day ~ latimes.com

Healthy corner
* The Truth About Breast Cancer and Drinking Red Wine—or Any Alcohol ~ theatlantic.com
* Study of the Day: The Personality Trait Linking Alcohol to Aggression ~ theatlantic.com

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