Saturday, September 27, 2014

Moby Chimes In With Hollywood Food Voices

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by Paige Donner

Check out this new video, just dropped today, West Coast time, by Moby and Hollywood Food Voices:

"We Need Our Bees A Lot More Than They Need Us" - Moby paraphrasing Einstein

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8h2Qr_5gyN0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2Qr_5gyN0

"If the bees go, we're next," Moby said during an appearance on TakePart Live. "A huge percentage of our food supply is dependent on ...

a guided tour of Moby's four-acre home atop the Hollywood Hills, where over 30,000 bees dwell

full interview with Moby where he discusses his passion for bees, airing on TakePart Live on September 25th, and see snippets of the video.

Airs 7pmPST/10pmEST on PIVOT TV.

 

  honey bee colonies in the U.S. has dropped from over 5 million in 1940 to less than 2.5 million today

 

"Hollywood Food Voices" is an engaging and entertaining new platform whose goal is to create excitement, awareness, and a sense of empowerment within a wide demographic of viewers and concerned citizens.

 

BEES - indicator species - meaning their presence, absence, and their well-being is indicative of the health of our environment as a whole. So the plight of the bees is our plight as well.

 

Over the last several years, scientists have increasingly attributed pollinator declines to the indiscriminate use of systemic pesticides, most notably a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are up to 10,000 times more toxic to bees than other insecticides, and their use can have both immediate and long-term effects. So while these bee-toxic pesticides are not theonly cause of declining bee populations, they are a primary contributing factor and certainly one we must do something about — fast.

 

The full video can be seen online starting September 26th at: http://www.hollywoodfood.org/bees

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Winners of the 10th Annual Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards

Posted by Paige Donner

LRWWA_2013_BookFinalistThe jury is in, and the winners announced last week for the 2014 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards.

Held in London's Piccadilly at the Royal Academy of Arts, the ceremony was attended by an international assortment of members of the wine trade and publishers from around the world as well as writers and journalists. It was noted that the event is becoming ever-increasingly more international.

To commemorate this tenth edition of the Awards ceremony, a special cuvée of Cristal 2006 was served in flutes, called Jamesse champagne flutes, that were designed by the head sommelier at Reims' Les Crayères restaurant.

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WINNERS 2014

THE ARTISTRY OF WINE AWARD 2014

ADRIAN LANDER

 

DOMAINES SCHLUMBERGER
EMERGING WINE WRITER OF THE YEAR 2014

EMMA SYMINGTON

Various from thewinemonkeys.com

RAMOS PINTO ONLINE COMMUNICATOR OF THE YEAR 2014

TIM ATKIN

Reports from www.timatkin.com

DOMAINE FAIVELEY INTERNATIONAL
WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014

THE NEW CALIFORNIA WINE

                                           Jon Bonné

CASTIGLION DEL BOSCO
INTERNATIONAL WINE COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR 2014

NINA CAPLAN

Columns from New Statesman

DOMAINES OTT INTERNATIONAL WINE
FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR 2014

RICHARD MAYSON

World of Fine Wine

INTERNATIONAL SHORT COPY
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR 2014

SUSY ATKINS

Articles from Stella Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph

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