Little Daisy Bake Shop’s sweet tribute.
Montclair came together Saturday night to share a love for books, wine, books about wine and of course, the Montclair Library.
The Dickens-themed Grape Expectations wine event with New York Times food and wine critic Eric Asimov was a sold-out affair to benefit the Montclair Library Foundation. Asimov started the evening off with a user-friendly master class where he stressed the importance of simply enjoying wine, getting away from what can seem pretentious and making the experience of tasting and learning about wine more accessible. He also shared how he first became obsessed with wine and other anecdotes from “How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto.”
Asimov’s talk was paired with a quartet of tastings selected by Sharon Sevrens of Amanti Vino and matched to small bites constructed artfully by Ariane Duarte of Culinariane. (Two favorites in the master class flight — a 2011 Chateau Simone Palette Rose, Provence, at $61.99 and a more economically priced 2012 Sigalas Santorini Assytiko/Athiri Blend at $17.99)
Stress is a killer—literally. I think most of us know this. And yet we seem to often be stressed out. Some of us even take pride in how much stress we can handle. Take it from me, sooner or later you will start to feel the negative effects of stress. Its like a high interest loan–great for getting us out of a life or death situation. When we are worried about how to send our kids to college, whether our child is eating enough to grow, or the quality of our parenting the cost may outweigh any benefits. The good news is there is something we can do about it.
