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Champagne Dreams
Published 10/17/2008 by Erin Souza

 

If your knowledge of Champagne history only extends as far back as your last cocktail party, we can commiserate. Before getting our hands on Colby College assistant professor Tilar J. Mazzeo’s latest book, The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it (HarperCollins Publishers, 2008; $25.95), all we really knew about famed Champagne house Veuve Clicquot was that we loved the pricy bubbly it produced. Mazzeo takes an in-depth look at the veuve (French for widow) behind the label — Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin — and tells the story of how Champagne became synonymous with style. Some of it (like the pages about Clicquot Ponsardin’s obstacles during the Napoleonic Wars) reads a bit like a history textbook, but the inspirational rags-to-one-of-the-r

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WEDNESDAY: Rishi Reddi at Borders
Published 6/12/2007 by Sharon Steel
The lit buzz circulating around Brookline native RISHI REDDI reminds us of the hype that surrounded...

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