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The first rule in matching wine with any dish that relies on a starch such as Yukon Gold potatoes is to ignore the starch altogether. The starch whether pasta, rice [...]

The aim of mine tailings management strategy is to protect the environment and humans from risks associated with mine tailings. It seems inevitable that future production from lower grade ores in mines will increase, generating a higher tonnage of tailings. Approximately 14 billion tonnes of tailings were produced globally by the mining industry in 2010. The need for a comprehensive framework for mine tailings management (including dewatering) that promotes sustainable development is therefore becoming increasingly recognised by the mining industry. In this paper, we review existing frameworks for tailings management and propose an improved framework that considers key sustainable development pillars: technological, economic, environmental, policy, and social aspects. This framework will be able to guide the mining sector to choose its mine tailings management strategy based on sustainable development concepts. It incorporates a range of tools for determining trade- offs inherent in different tailings management methods during operation and throughout the Life of Mine (LOM); these include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Net Present Value (NPV), Hierarchy System Model (HSM), and Decision Analysis. In particular, this proposed recognises the highly case-specific of tailings management by explicitly integrating physicochemical characterisation of tailings properties as a first step. In future, the framework could be expanded through integration of reuse/recycle principles of industrial symbiosis., http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615010707

Presents information on the author's experience kneading dough for one night, at A Baker's Place.

Discusses about the increasing number of winemaking hobbyists in the Washington area. Factors responsible for the trend. INSET: Getting started on winemaking, by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick..

Focuses on the author's experience of spending a fall weekend with his wife working at a winery and visiting country inns in California. What the author and his wife learnt at Geyser Peak Winery; How the author and his wife spent the first hour at the winery; Touring of the country inns by the couple. INSET: Ways & means..

Opinion. Presents information on different types of wine chardonnays. Move by wineries in California to make only oak-fermented ones; Information on wineries making full-bodied chardonnay; Information on crisp chardonnays.

Describes examples of merlot wine. Winemakers' blending of merlot and cabernet to achieve silky richness that neither grape would reach on its own; Merlot as a halfway house for white wine devotees who are making the transition to red wine; California as the leader in the world of merlot bottlings; Examples of merlot.

Presents information on the French wine Armagnac and a listing of other wines and prices.

Looks at wines around the world. Wine industry in Australia and northern Rhone Valley of France; Names of wines; Information on various wines.