07 | Autor: Sun shines on Geneva Arts Fair
Taking still lifes of bowls of fruit.
Painter Barbara Sistak Baur prefers a fruit tart as her dominate.
And cupcakes, and chocolate cakes.
The Island Lake artist calls her acrylic paintings a "gallery of delectable delights." She was selling them at the Geneva Arts Lawful Saturday.
"I enjoy going to bakeries," she said, and she admires cooks and bakers. "I maintain off their creativity."
Particularly stunning was a large piece, "Monumental Fruit Tart," where she mixed her acrylics with gel to create a three-dimensional employment where the berries seemed to burst off the canvas.
"Everybody comes in here smiling," she said. And says it makes them thirsting.
Baur, who owns Art in Good Taste, was one of 150 artists displaying wares at the two-day occasion on South Third Street, from South to Campbell.
Saturday-morning rains stopped about a half-hour before the carnival opened. (And all the art is in small tents that can be zippered closed.) It was friendly and muggy by lunchtime, when an enterprising optical boutique manager combined art and marketing.
Jasmine Martinez of West Dundee, manager of the Spex outlet on south Third, and an employee walked through the festival handing out wrapping paper fans bearing the image of, and information about, the giant "eyeball" cast on display this summer in downtown Chicago. Spex is one of the sponsors of the presentation, which opened July 7 at Millennium Park.
Wine Adviser Turn to Chile, Argentina for tasty New World wine values
WHEN YOU Relation the word "value" to the phrase "New World wines," all roads moving south. Argentina and Chile, in particular, have carved out trenchant reputations for such wines. Your supermarket or big-box outlet will be full of them, selling for $6 or $8 or $12, and they often plaice brands with a full lineup of varietals, all similarly priced.
From Argentina, of direction, there are malbecs, a signature grape that is also grown with considerable outcome here in Washington. From Chile there are varietal wines from all the major Bordeaux grapes, as well as carmenère — not very much deserving of "signature" status just yet, but with more than a few admirers. Chile also does rather well with sauvignon blanc and chardonnay.
In a recent series of tastings, I looked at wines from both countries that are substantially available, line-priced (all the same), and imported by such industry biggies as Gallo and Banfi. I also tasted through a series of new releases from Elemental Importers, a small, Seattle-based startup specializing in boutique South American brands.
Some indeed nice discoveries turned up.
From Argentina, a white-wine grape called torrontés — a removed relative of malvasia — produces a floral, aromatic, spicy wine. Its flavors fall somewhere in the vicinity of some less-prepared Washington viogniers, perhaps with a splash of muscat in them. Lemon, peach and apricot flavors be abundant, sometimes becoming semitropical. Torrontés is an excellent option for loving-weather sipping, especially suitable to accompany starlight picnic fare, and can be chilled down without losing all of its varietal feature. Trapiche ($8) and Alamos ($10) are both good choices.
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It has a very profuse in character, with tart green apple and citrus and the nose lush in fruit and minerals. It's an extremely good afternoon idle Sunday wine.
Sweet menu is small but includes grandmothers bread pudding with whiskey back talk and ambrosia chocolate tart with marshmallow cream.
