03.16.08
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Your initial manuscript is complete. Maybe it’s even been shelved for a period of time. You may have sent the manuscript to a publisher, but it never really went anywhere. You really believe in the book, but are tired of hitting the roadblock that reads, “No unsolicited manuscripts”.
Maybe what you need is a literary agent; one who believes in you and your work and will represent that belief to appropriate publishers. You conduct an online search and find several agents and agencies available, but you have no idea what to do next.
It is true that many authors who utilize the services of a literary agent may still have little publishing success, but by utilizing an agent you may be able to find a few more doors open.
There is a cautionary tale in all of this. You see, there are many ‘agents’ who will ask for a fee (sometimes called a readers fee) to review your manuscript. If an agent asks for any fees up front they are not likely to be members of the Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR). This organization provides rules of conduct and ethics for literary agents.
One of the prime motivators for a literary agent is that they do not receive payment until/unless they actually sell your manuscript to a publisher. In this way they are as interested in seeing you succeed as you are. If they are paid up front they may be less inclined to market your work effectively.
If you are looking for an agent, check to see if they are a member of AAR. There are plenty of individuals who are making a significant living by receiving fees from clients they do not represent well.
There are several locations on the web that provide information on agents to avoid. One of the most comprehensive can be found at http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/peala.htm Another source for agent information is a writer’s market guidebook (there are multiple directories available).
You should know that it is entirely possible to get your manuscript published without the use of an agent, but it will take more research from you.
You will also most likely need to sell yourself as well as your work to a qualified agent. Many agents are already working with established authors so they often find it difficult to bring new authors on board. It can be done - remain persistent.
Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of FaithWriters (http://www.faithwriters.com) and many other web projects. FaithWriters has grown to become one of the largest online destinations for Christian writers. Please visit the website at: http://www.faithwriters.com
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6. What do you say now when someone asks you: “What do you do?”
That’s from the questionnaire all my students send in right after they sign up for my 3 Scripts (100 customers 100 days) telecourse. Here’s a typical answer from a gent, a veteran in the business:
“Honestly…I never know what to say. The “Health Consultant” line bores me. “I’m a Network Marketer” line turns my stomach. “I’m a National Director with MY COMPANY NAME” line is responded to by yawns, mine included.
Believe it or not, I usually make something up on the spot, so I don’t have to use one of those terrible opening one-liners! Crazy, but true. And then I hope that the person I am speaking to asks me what I am drinking so that I can tell them all about NAME of MY PRODUCT.”
Network marketing is a business whose money-making mantra is:
Talk to people: Talk to people: Talk to people.
And yet no company nor its trainers give new recruits any usable instruction on what they should say to people about what they do, what they market, or how they make income (for when they’re talking to potential sales reps.)
At Starbucks, the new recruits get 20-25 hours training learning to make 33 basic drinks and another 30+ variations before they set foot on the floor. All that to earn $6.75/hour.
So for 10 hours/week, the new employee earns about $200/mo. And that’s AFTER they have demonstrated that they know how to make 33 drinks and the variations.
How much income is it, again, that they offer recruits in network marketing for working say 10 hours/week? Was that $1000/mo? Or $5000?
And how much time did they train you in how to talk to people? Did you ever have to demonstrate that you know what to say to people in all the different situations you come across them in?
Scripts are kind of like drinks, aren’t they?
Short, sweet, customized to you, with different ones for different situations.
Of course, this situation gives me a little business so I can fill in the gap.
Wonder why this is considered so unimportant, though, by the powers that be.
Especially with a 102% drop out rate.
Kim Klaver is Harvard & Stanford educated. Her 20 years experience in network marketing have resulted in a popular blog, http://KimKlaverBlogs.com, a podcast, http://YourGreatThing.com and a giant resource site, http://BananaMarketing.com.
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So you want to start your own business? Well, why don’t you? This is not a hard question. I’m certain you have barriers to following your dream or you would have done it already. We need to examine what is standing in your way and coax you into dipping your toe into your dream water. Most of the time, keeping you from doing your own thing is fear. Well, fear is good. It keeps you real, but don’t let it plan your life or paralyze you.
I have enjoyed owning several different businesses in my life time and hope to develop and run many more. I love the excitement of building a dream into a reality. It can be challenging, frustrating, time consuming, moneymaking or a dismal failure. You learn from each experience.
I have so many little ventures in my head to try in the future. You need to acknowledge the creativity in yourself, decide what interests you and how you want to spend your time. I read one time that if you do what you love, success will follow. I’m not sure that success is always measured in dollars… we can weigh happiness and contentment also.
I want to assure you there are issues to worry about. If you are half of a two-paycheck family and your regular earnings are needed to keep your family comfortable, you do have to recognize the risk to venturing out on your own. If you are a stay at home Mom and want to contribute to the household but have short human beings to care for, you need to plan carefully so you don’t end up burning the candle at both ends, therefore jeopardizing the reason you wanted to stay home with your children.
Let’s explore a few ideas and you will see that it is possible to work for yourself if that is what to really want to do.
Think of something you do you enjoy. Can everyone do this thing as well as you can? Do they have time? Perhaps you can do it for them.
I love to knit. I REALLY love to knit. Once I made flyer type posters and hung them all over town wherever I could. Grocery stores, yarn shops, Laundromats, etc. On the poster I offered to give knitting lessons in my home at the client’s convenience. I waited and because I am not a patient person, when I didn’t get any calls I decided this was one of the ideas I wasn’t going to brag to my friends about…and then…when I had given up hope, (two days after hanging the posters, I told you I was devoid of patience), I started getting calls. I got so many calls I had to go out and purchase a scheduling calendar. I scheduled the lessons when they were convenient for both the client and me. I scheduled hour-long sessions and charged $25.00 for the first session, $10.00 for each lesson after that. No one questioned the fee and several said they were relieved it was so reasonable. I had no overhead and only profit in my pocket from showing other people how to do something I enjoyed!
doing so much. Word of mouth soon made it unnecessary to put up any more posters and I can be as busy or not as I choose. Although my husband is always supportive of my entrepreneurial endeavors, even he was surprised on a day I had three new students and two return students and made $95.00 sitting on my couch knitting.
I once decided our area could use a cleaning service for residential homes at a reasonable price. Now, previously when I said do what you love and you will be successful, I certainly don’t want you to think I love to clean…quite the contrary, however, I do like to make money. I put two ads in our local newspaper. One ad advertised for someone to clean houses. The second ad offered reasonable fees to clean your home. The calls started coming in. When an applicant who wanted to clean called I would interview them, make sure I felt very comfortable with them and told them I would get back to them in a week. When folks called who wanted their home cleaned I would go to their home, see what they wanted done and gave them a price to do it. I left them a contract and asked them to think about my offer and call me back. The first week was a little disorganized and I questioned why I just didn’t get a paper route. But, the second week things really began to smooth out and it just g!
ot busier and better from there. I soon had three ladies cleaning three houses a day. I could have even let this venture grow, as it wanted to take on a life of its own once it started. My part was to carry liability insurance (not expensive at all), advertise in the paper if I lost either a worker or a house and be certain that I always gave the customer a charge that would cover my expenses and pay my ladies with a little left over for me. I never cleaned a house. When I felt I had done this long enough and wanted to go on to something else, I offered the business to the first woman I had hired. She was one of my best and most dependable workers and the customers loved her. I knew she could keep things running and I could walk away from this baby feeling secure it was in good hands. My mistake, (I told you that you would learn even from your blunders), was that two years after I gave her the little cleaning business she sold it for $35,000. Hummmm, it never dawned on me I!
could have sold it. Duh…..
Can you install perennials and/or maintain them for folks. Everyone appreciates their yard looking well but few folks like getting dirt under their finger nails while swatting black flies.
Working moms stress over having to take time off for routine dental and doctor appointments. Are you in a position to do this for them? Can they call you if their child needs to be transported to a sitter because of illness during the day?
Can you bake? Well, get out that mixing bowl and stand back! People will pay you for making birthday cakes, cookies for school functions that need to look home made, and desserts for their parties. Word of mouth and return customers can keep you hopping.
Can you devote a Saturday morning to watching children while their mom, who has worked all week, does errands? Advertise yourself available to sit, on short notice from 9AM to 11:00AM on Saturday mornings. I’ll bet you will make enough during those two hours a week to keep you free to spend time with your own children the rest of the week. Most working moms have sitters who don’t do weekends.
Do you enjoy cleaning? I have found that even people who don’t mind doing their day to day house work really dislike cleaning their bathrooms. Specialize in bathrooms. Yes, people will call on that ad. They will happily pay to have you shine their bathroom while they work. (And, Mom, you can usually take your baby with you to do this.)
The key is to think about what you love to do. If you’re going to do something you don’t enjoy just for the money you might as well work for someone else. Then test it. Is anyone interested in paying you to do this thing? Next, visualize how to make it happen. Can you do it during the day with children or in the evening when re-enforcements are home? Don’t be afraid to try several things and fail. Eventually you will find a niche if you stay focused and realistic.
Dream a little and control the magic in your life.
Holly Burnham is a self admitted yarn addict. The addiction will be life long and there is no hope of remission. Her constant knitting has put the cleanliness of her home in peril. Her yarn stashes are havens for generations of moths. At the risk of contracting this affliction, visit her at http://www.knittinghaven.com.
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The rumour: aerodynamically, based upon the ratio of wing surface area to body size, a bumblebee should not be able to fly.
A strange thought as I watch several bumblebees wiggle their pudgy black and yellow bodies in and out of purple delphinium flowers, legs laden with pollen, and then off they go in perfect flight.
No one told them they couldn’t fly. Flight appears to be quite effortless to them. They succeed year after year.
You may be thinking, “Who cares and so what?”
Here’s the “real” questions to ask.
Are we the same as the bumblebee?
Do we create amazing results, thriving and succeeding, regardless of what others think we can or can’t do?
Or do we live our lives encumbered, limited, and held back by what we have accepted as common knowledge - absolute truth?
I’m guessing that both may be true.
I have recently received a whack of e-zines with stories and quotations about how our greatest life lessons come from our biggest failures and struggles. It seems to be common thinking that it is OK, maybe even noble, to struggle and fight because at the end of the day, we will be struck with wisdom that will help us to move forward to greater success - so we can face even greater failures and struggles.
Cool deal! Acceptance of this belief helps us to forge-on, regardless of the difficulty of the situation. We trust that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
And yet, if we accept this belief, are we unconsciously buying into, and creating our own struggles and failures? Are we unconsciously making a choice to either:
a) create our struggles, fights, and eventually success, or
b) be an incompetent, unsuccessful boob?
Tough choice! Seems like insanity, but this scenario was true for me.
I remember choosing to put myself under incredible work pressure, taking on way too much within a short time-period, agreeing to things that didn’t feel good in my heart, struggling with how and where to use my time, neglecting my family, my health, and my relationships. I remember thinking, “Life is tough but I am going to become a much better person because of this.”
I admit there was great learning for me.
And yet, recently, I have quit buying into this deal about struggle and fight. I don’t believe in sayings like these: “The measure of a man is not how high he goes, but how high he rebounds after he has hit the bottom” or “To increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Instead, I approach life differently. I look forward to each day for the peace, joy, happiness, and love that is all around me. I believe that I learn more and better lessons about myself, others, and life when I believe in abundance rather than lack. Life seems more satisfying, inspirational, profitable, and fun. I perform much better when motivated by love rather than by fear of the fight.
How does it shake-out for you? Upon what beliefs do you choose to base your life?
For some people, their beliefs are like these:
- Suck it up princess - life is tough
- Good humble people suffer
- The best lessons come from the biggest hardships
- It’s a dog-eat-dog world
- Failure is the best way to learn
- If I can just get through this … (day, week, month, contract, year(s), etc.) then life will be good.
I have a challenge for you, if you choose to accept it. Say and re-affirm positive uplifting statements to yourself at least 3 times per day. Fill your days with conscious thoughts, beliefs, and actions based on statements such as:
- Yahoo - life is great
- Today is the best day ever
- Life is so much fun
- I love what I do
- I treat all people with care, love, and respect
- I honour my relationships
- This is easy for me
- My greatest lessons come to me easily and effortlessly
- I experience success in everything I choose to do
- I provide exceptional value to our society.
You may be thinking, “Ah com’on Dan. That positive thinking and affirmation stuff doesn’t work.”
You are absolutely correct, if that is what you believe.
On the other hand, why not give it a whirl? What do you have to lose by trying? Keep in mind the wise words of Yoda in the “Star Wars” movie, “Do, or do not do. There is no try.”
Or in bumblebee terms, fly graciously and effortlessly, going above, below, around, and beyond. Who really cares what others say you can or can’t do.
You are cleared for take-off. Happy flying!
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03.15.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:44 pm by internetckq
OK - when I signed up for a group tour last summer, I thought I’d be spending my time with a bunch of people my grandparents age.
The only reason I chose the group tour was that it was the most affordable way for me to see all the places I wanted to see and I was really on a tight budget.
Boy was I surprised! Not only were all of the people on the tour in my age range (18-25 yrs), but they were all there for the same reasons - fun and affordability. Everyone was so friendly and laid back that I made lifelong buds. . . in fact, we’ve made plans to go on another tour together!
So what did I like about going on a group tour, versus going by myself?
Well, the first thing of course, was the money. I could never have afforded to go to all of the places and see all of the things that were provided on this tour. I saved about seven hundred dollars.
Even if I had been able to go to the amazing locations on my own, I would have just had to look, or read the brochure.
My tour company had expert guides to explain the history, the culture and sometimes the secrets of each site we visited.
The next not to be ignored benefit was personal safety .
Let’s face it. The world is not the safest place to travel alone. With the tour, I was able to be with others. I didn’t have to be afraid of getting mugged, or drugged, or any list of nasty things that can happen to a person traveling alone. I remember my friend telling me about sunbathingon a Costa Rican beach, when a young man with a gun robbed him - in broad daylight!
The chartered transportation relieved the stress of finding local taxis and bus routes and eliminated the need for constant tipping in foreign currency or trying to give someone directions in another language.
As for pre-trip planning, I didn’t have a bunch to do, the tour company gave me an itinerary and suggestions on what to bring. I just had to show up with my packed bags at the appointed place and time and after that, I was free to enjoy the trip.
For anyone who thinks that tours are just schlepping around to churches and art galleries, hold on to your hat.
My tour was a trip down the Amazon!
There are singles tours for many wonderful destinations and exciting activities. If you want to party hearty, play hard, relax by the pool, trek through exotic places, bike, hike, or luxury cruise, there is a singles tour for you.
Go for it!
I did….and I’m so glad that even though I was nervous, I found a great group of young people interested in the same things as me! I’ve made life long friends, seen amazing sights, and am planning my next singles group vacation.
Who would’ve thought?
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I have just recently gone out and bought a 17 inch notebook, and so far have been fairly impressed with its quality. It is definitely superior to the old IBM Thinkpad that I owned years ago. Back then, laptop computers were pretty big and bulky, with poor screen resolution. They were considerably more expensive than they are now and to top it all, the battery life was poor at best.
My new Dell 17 inch notebook is everything that my old laptop was not. It is sleek, low-profile, contains hours of battery life, and now comes with a high-resolution lcd screen that is just simply a joy to behold.
I had put off buying a new 17 inch notebook for quite a while. I have always found the process of buying a new computer agonizing. No matter how long you wait, the very following week after you’ve made your purchase on whatever system you have chosen, out comes something cheaper, more powerful, at a lower price and with a better warranty! It is enough to drive you completely crazy.
I knew that the convenience of a new laptop computer was going to be worth it no matter what, and eventually I got and bought myself the new 17 inch notebook. And I am glad that I did. There is nothing that beats having your own laptop computer, especially a fully configured one at that.
The best thing about my new 17 inch notebook is how easy it makes working on-the-go seem. With the prevalence of wifi (wireless broadband enabled) coffee houses, I can now work from my 17 inch notebook from any part of town. I actually do quite a fair bit of freelance work, so the luxury of being able to do all my work on the go, when I want, and from where I want, makes my life almost feel like being on permanent vacation!
And when I am done with my 17 inch notebook, I simply slip it back into my laptop computer sleeve, and can carry it around with me wherever I’m off to next. It is no burden at all, because of its light weight, and though I occasionally worry about having it stolen, or accidentally damaged, so far no harm has come to my computer. You can of course include insurance for it when making your initial purchase.
My sturdy 17 inch notebook has really changed my life, certainly for the better. Of course, for many people, getting a new 17 inch notebook computer like I have done might be a bad idea. If you are not that good at keeping track of your things, it is a definite no. You could easily lose your 17 inch notebook computer, along with all of your work and data, due to one careless mistake.
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If you are hankering for some fine German wine and food, you should take a look at the Rheinhessen region of southwestern Germany. Who knows, you may even find a bargain, and I think that you’ll enjoy yourself on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local red Dornfelder.
Rheinhessen is a relatively small area, sometimes called the land of the thousand hills, nestled between the Rhine and the Nahe Rivers. It already was known for its wines in the days of Charlemagne. To some extent it is famous or infamous for Liebfraumilch, to be reviewed in another article in this series. It is the German region with both the largest area planted in wine grapes and the highest wine production. Rheinhessen alone claims over a quarter of the German wine acreage and wine production. It is also produces the highest percentage of generally low quality table wine, coming in at almost 12%. More than 60% of Rheinhessen wine is middle quality QbA wine, and a bit more than 25% is higher quality QmP wine. About seven of eight bottles contain white wine, but the percentage of red wine is increasing. The most widely grown varieties are the German hybrid Mueller-Thurgau and Silvaner. The usually higher quality Riesling represents about 10% of the total production. Dornfelder is the most widely planted red grape variety. The marketing materials, quoted below, present one viewpoint of this German-bred grape.
Mainz has a population of about eighty thousand. It is one of the centers of the German wine trade. It is the state capital of Rheinland-Pfalz which is the only German state government with a wine minister. The city is built on the site of a two thousand year-old Roman citadel. In this part of the world two thousand years is a short time; a local museum contains three hundred thousand year-old artifacts. In season the Marktplatz (Market) and H?fchen (Little Courtyard) buzz with farmers selling their wares on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. Check the exact dates for the annual Sektfest (Sparkling Wine Festival) held in late May or early June and then Johannisnacht, another wine festival several weeks later.
Other sites to see include the Dom (Cathedral of St. Martin and St. Stephan) which broke ground shortly prior to the turn of the first millennium. Because of seven fires most of the Cathedral is newer, dating from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries. The cloisters contain a museum of religious artifacts. Right near by is the Gutenberg Museum. Other local museums are devoted to the Middle Ages, Roman warships, art, plants, animals, and fossils. If all this touring makes you thirsty for more than knowledge visit the Kupferberg Sektkellerei (sparkling wine cellars), the deepest on earth. There are several concert halls, theaters, night clubs, and wine bars. Not far from the city are the Mainz Sand Dunes, a tiny area home to plants and animals rarely seen in Western Europe.
Before reviewing the Rheinhessen wine and imported cheeses that we were lucky enough to purchase at a local wine store and a local Italian food store, here are a few suggestions of what to eat with indigenous wines when touring this beautiful region. Start with Zweibelkuchen (Onion Pie). For your second course enjoy Haxen und Bratkartoffeln (Pork Hocks and Home Fries). As a dessert indulge yourself with Frankfurter Kranz (Buttercream Cake).
OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY All wines that we taste and review are purchased at the full retail price.
Wine Reviewed Rappenhof Dornfelder Trocken 2004 13.0% alcohol about $15.50
Let’s start by quoting the marketing materials. Dornfelder is a cross, bred in 1956 by August Herold. In its genealogy, the grape claims every important red vine grown in Germany. Fortunately, it has inherited most of the positive attributes and very few of the negative. The wines are deeply coloured, velvety in texture with hints of floral. Slightly off-dry, this example gives good aroma replays on the palate. Serve with Wiener schnitzel. Now for the review. (By the way, I found its color more of a dark rose.)
My first pairing was with a barbecued, marinated rib steak with potato patties, potato wedges, and a commercially prepared eggplant and tomato side dish. The wine was very short with moderate fruit when imbibed with the meat and potatoes. It crept back into the woodwork when faced with a fairly powerful eggplant dish.
The next tasting involved a cheeseless broccoli, mushroom, and zucchini quiche with mashed potatoes. The Dornfelder tasted sour and I sensed some sort of strange fruit in the background. I finished the glass with beer nuts. The wine was fairly flat but its sourness disappeared.
The final meal consisted of meatballs in a tomato sauce with rice and green beans. The wine was somewhat rounder than before but was still ever so short. I thought I was drinking an alcoholic fruit juice.
The initial cheese pairing was with a French goat cheese that really resembled a Camembert. While the wine was a bit flat it did taste lightly of black cherries. Then I went to a Swiss Gruyere. The Dornfelder became somewhat more robust but the fruit was less distinctive. I finished the bottle with a local, fairly sharp Asiago cheese that I prefer to its presumably more authentic Italian cousin. Finally a decent pairing; the wine was pleasant.
Final verdict. I didn’t plan to be reviewing two Dornfelders in such short order. But we don’t get many of them in our neck of the woods so I figured why not give it a try. There certainly won’t be a third round in the near future. I fail to see why such a grape should cost more than many better grapes from German and other countries. Of course, if I had liked the wine…
Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten computer and Internet books, but would rather just drink fine German, Italian or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He teaches computer classes at an Ontario French-language community college. His major wine website is http://www.theworldwidewine.com which links to his other web sites.
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03.14.08
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Most of us know people who would like to throw any excuse for not caring for their cars. One reason might be financial inability; they say that can’t afford to restore it and they simply leave it unattended just seeing it rusting in their back yard. After some years of continually increased rust development, the time has finally come for sending it to the crusher rather than see somebody else caring for it or buying it. “If I can’t have it, nobody else should!” - reflects a nasty attitude that unfortunately is prevailing in some peoples mind. After using the vehicle for years they don’t even care about it or even sell it. Classic car restoration is the ultimate way to give your old classic vehicle a lease of life and give it a new look. If you can you should definitely try to restore it, especially if you are a classic automobile lover.
I have found a few places on the web to help you sell your car, or to buy one of course, but for now I will keep harping on the fact that you should not just let your old classic car rot away. What are the reasons for that, you might ask.
3 Reasons For Taking Care of Your Old Classic Auto
1. The first reason is fairly obvious; they don’t build them anymore, and their getting very hard to find in decent shape, people are always looking for the classic American cars (or Am Cars), and as long as their still around, people from all over the world will never stop looking for them.
2. The second reason is this, if these cars just disappear, we lose out on all the class and style that they have to give us, every one of the old cars has its own look and feel, as well as it’s own style, unlike the new cars, that all just seem to look alike.
3. The third reason; Imagine you wake up one day, and all the classic cars are just gone, like the dinosaurs that once roamed the earth, what if we wake up and all the cars just look the same, what a boring life that would be, every one looks like the imports do. Well, I can’t say nothing but this: don’t ever let it happen.
If you own a classic auto and do not have an idea of restoring it or if you cannot afford to restore it then better sell it to anyone who is interested in your vehicle.
This would help to have it around somewhere in the world. You should avoid though, to look at it as your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I think it would be wiser to think about what you have and the condition that it is in, and do your selling effort accordingly. Keep in mind that most classic car buyers aren’t idiots, and you can’t slip one by them.
If you plan to sell your classic vehicle You can do a simple research on it before you announce it for sale. Honesty is the best; don’t rip off somebody for just wanting your old classic car. If you sell them what they want and nothing else you have done what you can do, unless you want to restore it yourself. There are many quality sites on the web that help you to sell your classic car. Just do a simple search on your favorite search engine, and you will get the information you need and a little bit more.
Terry Bolton is a writer and internet publisher who likes to publish informative articles about classic vehicles and related issues. Read more at http://www.11-classic-cars.com.
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If you are looking for fine Italian wine and food, consider the Molise region of central Italy. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour.
Molise is a small region of central eastern Italy on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most unspoiled regions of Italy, about 90% hills and mountains. Its total population is less than a third of a million people, which makes it the second least populous region of Italy after the Aosta Valley. Molise was associated with Abbruzo until 1963.
Agricultural products include livestock, pigs, sheep, and goats, wheat and a variety of vegetables including giant celery. The coast furnishes seafood and fish. Polenta (cornbread) is as popular as pasta.
Isernia is the largest city with a population somewhat less than ninety thousand. This area was first settled about 700,000 years ago (not a typographical error) and is of archeological interest. The regional capital, Campobasso, was the site of major battles during World War II. If you love old European cities consider visiting Larino, even if it is not mentioned in major tourist guides. (I’m not naming names.)
Molise devotes about nineteen thousand acres to grapevines, it ranks 18th among the 20 Italian regions. Its total annual wine production is about nine and a half million gallons, also giving it an 18th place. The region produces 3 DOC wines. DOC stands for Denominazione di Origine Controllata, which may be translated as Denomination of Controlled Origin, presumably a high-quality wine. Less than 4% of Molise wine carries the DOC designation. Molise is home to almost two dozen major and secondary grape varieties, about half white and half red.
Widely grown international white grape varieties include Chardonnay and Trebbiano (in particular the Italian Trebbiano Toscano subvariety). The best known Italian white variety is Falanghina, the main component in the wine reviewed below.
The best known strictly Italian red varieties are Montepulciano, Agliacano, and Tintilia.
Before reviewing the Molise wine and cheese that we were lucky enough to purchase at a local wine store and a local Italian food store, here are a few suggestions of what to eat with indigenous wines when touring this beautiful region.
Start with Taccozze alla Crema a’Asparagi, Hand-Cut Pasta Squares in Asparagus Cream.
Then move on to Zuppa di Pesce alla Termolese, Seafood Pot from Termoli, a resort on the Adriatic Sea.
For dessert indulge yourself with Calcuini del Molise, Sweet Chestnut Fritters.
OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY While we have communicated with well over a thousand Italian wine producers and merchants to help prepare these articles, our policy is clear. All wines that we taste and review are purchased at the full retail price.
Wine Reviewed
Rami Di Majo Norante Falanghina Del Molise 2005 12.5% alcohol about $11.50
I’ll start by quoting the marketing materials. “Made from the well-known Falanghina grape (with a little help from the ubiquitous Fiano variety), this delviers fresh peach and apricot flavors with a good citrus spine. It’s crisp and refreshing. And goes well with slightly spicy seafood or chicken, or makes an excellent sipping wine.”
I first tasted this wine with fried chicken cutlets, rice, and corn on the cob. I found it smooth with apricot but no peach flavors. It had more of a citrus smell than taste. I added a cayenne pepper sauce to the meat, and the wine rose to the challenge.
I then tried Talapia filets cooked in an onion sauce with a side of green beans in tomato sauce. I added too much cayenne pepper sauce, which was too harsh for the wine and for the fish itself. However, even with a deadened palate the wine was pleasant.
In the presence of a commercial chicken pot pie with a chili and lime hot sauce (but not too much) the wine was citrusy and refreshingly acidic. On the down side, the wine was short.
Kube, also known as kibbe, is a Middle-Eastern specialty of balls of ground rice filled with ground meat that cooks slowly. The wine was an excellent companion, its acidity cutting the grease nicely. The word gossamer came to mind.
Sometimes we have to make compromises. As you can guess from the name, Pecorino Toscano is not a cheese from the Molise region. It is a sheep’s milk cheese that has been made in Tuscany and neighboring Umbria for thousands of years. Soft Pecorino Toscano is white with a tinge of yellow, while semi-hard Pecorino Toscano is pale yellow. It is moderately strong smelling and has a complex nutty flavor. In the presence of this cheese, our was crisp and yet unctuous.
Final verdict. This wine is a winner. When making notes on this wine I mistakenly identified it as a DOC wine but I double-checked the label. It is not a DOC wine, but in my opinion is better than many DOC wines that I’ve tasted.
Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on computers and the Internet, but to be honest, he would rather just drink fine Italian or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He teaches classes in computers at an Ontario French-language community college. His wine website is http://www.theworldwidewine.com.
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