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South Bay Accent - AugSep 2016

food, wine and fresh air 82 South Bay Accent SUMMER SIPPING AT ALFRESCO WINE BARS BY SUSAN HATHAWAY Having been discovered 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, wine has long since seeped into human history and culture while being the optimal escort for food. ¶ Thus it’s no surprise that dining establishments where wine plays the major role—wine bars—have been around long before Copernicus realigned astronomy to a correct axis in the 16th century. In fact, he reportedly favored an Italian wine bar that was built in 1435. Rudyard Kipling wrote his first novel in the London building housing Gordon’s—a famous wine bar launched in 1890—while the oldest Parisian wine bar, Réserve de Quasimodo, sits quietly in the shadows of gothic Notre Dame cathedral and was a hangout of famous criminal Cartouche in 1715.


South Bay Accent - AugSep 2016
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