This holiday season, dogs that prefer a path of refined tradition may enjoy a selection of accouterments that could add a little pedigree to even the motleyest mutt.
The cooking style might be called international youth gourmet, offering exotica to German clients and refined Bavarian tradition to foreigners.
Kashmir has a centuries-old, refined musical tradition, but few residents of the mountainous region are familiar with Western classical music.
* The next generation looked beyond the refined French goldsmith tradition in which their father worked, referencing the Italian Renaissance.
Manaku's brother Nainsukh revives a late Mughal tradition of refined figuration in tensile architectural interiors that are fine-boned versions of Rajput rooms.
French chef Bruno Davaillon continues the Mansion's tradition of refined modern global cuisine, evident in dishes like his ahi tuna with gazpacho, peas and tuna sauce ($20) and his scallops in coconut broth with lemon verbena and mussels ($44).
The earliest European hand axes are assigned to the Abbevillian industry, which developed in northern France in the valley of the Somme River; a later, more-refined hand-ax tradition is seen in the Acheulean industry, evidence of which has been found in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
(Turin and Naples, both historically subject to strong French culinary influence, in fact share Italy's most refined pastry and chocolate-making traditions, but the exuberant character of Naples could hardly be further removed from the restraint of Turin).
Alessandro Sartori creates something very particular: refined yet agile, steeped in tradition yet heedless of it.
But the beverage team at Blue Fin offers a refined sake that in the tradition of Beaujolais is called sake nouveau.
