And yesterday, Haitian President René Préval and several government ministers travelled to Saint-Marc for a roundtable discussion with local authorities on how best to respond to the crisis.
The supernatant was stored, and the marc extracted for a second time following the same method.
Brandies distilled from grape pomace, or marc, the material remaining in the winepress after grape pressing, include the French eau-de-vie de marc, for which Burgundy is well known, and grappa, an unaged, sharp-tasting brandy produced in both Italy and California.
The aim of this paper is to present the results of a study on the possible use of exhausted grape marc for obtaining grape seed oil by means of the supercritical technology.
Properly speaking, marc is the mass of pulpy leftovers; officially, the distillate is eau de vie de marc, but people call it marc for short.
"When the temperature in the train reached 110 degrees the consensus was that the Prince George's jail systems were air-conditioned and thus a better option than staying on the train," one commenter wrote in response to an article on The Washington Post's Web site about the episode on the Maryland Area Regional Commuter system, known as MARC for short.
The shipment was cleared through Haitian customs the same morning and awaiting trucks transported half of the doses directly to St. Marc for use in the rural component of the project, arriving by 2 00 pm the same day.
Florence Fabricant and I were joined for a tasting of 20 bottles from recent vintages by Olivier Flosse, wine director for MARC U.S., a restaurant group that includes the two A Voces in New York, and Kristie Petrullo of Petrullo Wine Consulting.
At shops like Sherry-Lehmann in New York and Calvert-Woodley and MacArthur Liquors in Washington, Cartron marc sells for $20 to $25 a bottle.
"And also so afraid!" At 6, Marc won a fellowship for gifted youth that covered the down payment on a Steinway.
