and wine, with meat and fish reserved for special occasions. Social dining played an important role, particularly among the elite, who gathered for symposia, exclusive drinking parties where men ...

But here’s the surprise - coffee granules, toilet rolls, wine corks and eggshells could be the secret ingredients to a thriving garden. David Domoney shares his clever gardening hacks.

“But in the end when I hit rock bottom, I was drinking anywhere from two to three bottles of wine a day. “During my marriage we would go out drinking really early - for breakfast, I would get ...

A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around ...

Now, as we enter our twilight years, he has experienced various medical problems, which have prompted him to stop drinking altogether. Although this is a good thing, I still would like to have a ...

He was channeling Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity, with a song about “the absurdity of violence between human beings.” Not everyone, however, enjoyed the ceremony, which prompted ...

He was channelling Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity, with a song about “the absurdity of violence between human beings”. Not everyone, however, enjoyed the ceremony, which prompted a ...

Vicki Denig is a wine and travel journalist who divides her ... can guide consumers to the prime drinking windows of higher-end wines. Not all wines are meant to age. Vintage plays much less ...

Homeric jug reveals wine was an everyday drink in Troy. (photo credit: Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen/Valentin Marquardt, CC BY-SA) In a discovery published in ...

Most conversations about wine end up mentioning France. Our Gallic neighbours vie with Italy to be the largest wine producer of all, but France has a history and culture that few can match.

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