The Wine Tasting Course at my Smith’s School of English Franchise in Kotoen is taking off and one senior man who is particularly interested in European food brought an extraordinary gift to the classroom the other day. Although he laments that the economy really isn’t all that great and that it really isn’t very likely [...]
February 15, 2010 – 5:10 am
Well Valentine’s has come and gone again and, although I was given no less than 2.5 kgs of chocolate from students and from my darling competitive wife Yoko, I still managed to keep weight at an appropriate level! The discovery of chocolate this year has been more of an all-out indulgence into quantity rather than the [...]
February 9, 2010 – 7:01 am
Valentine’s Day is coming up pretty soon and the department stores and confectioners are going to be doing great business selling chocolate. I just love the Japanese custom of women giving men chocolate! Now some men may not want to admit it, but I am German and not at all shy to admit that I absolutely [...]
Well, it has been several months since I had an update on wines, mostly because there just isn’t very much to report in the months of January to June. It is always in the second half of the year that things move in the wine industry, and this year should prove to be even more [...]