Umami Month The Umami Food and Art Festival, a month of events, will start Thursday and continue through May 9, with cooking workshops, rock concerts, film programs, food and wine presentations, and discussions of experimental cuisine.
The arched basement, fitted out for catering, will be used for classes on food and wine and presentations by guest chefs.
That irreverence reflects an evolution in the cultural presentation of wine that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mapped in the recent exhibition "How Wine Became Modern: Design and Wine 1976 to Now".
This salon series presentation includes wine and food, much of it homemade, and breaks for conversation with the artists.
These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4,500-person 4,500-persontival, a rite of slurpingor Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew ofestivale's Swedish distributor.
Originally just sort of a waiting area for those about to watch local alternative performance art in the adjoining theater space, the bar later served beer and wine with all the presentation of booze culled from the corner market.
At Landmarc, however, the question accompanies the presentation of the wine list, and the ensuing spiel brings good news, the upshot of which is that you get great wine on the cheap.
So it turns out that X can't exist, despite his modest presentation, without a wine cellar; whereas Y, so imperious in other ways, has a bedroom that doubles as an office.
He has been building toward this brand of naughty defiance since Hearth's opening in 2003, when the wine list was less a presentation of alternatives than a volume of gonzo literature, thick with messianic riffs and madcap digressions.
If you let on your ignorance, most owners, rather than sneering, proudly launch into a long presentation about their wines, their grapes and their history.
A multimedia presentation on the history of wine in art will be given on Friday by the Bacchus Society, a student wine organization, at 7 30 p.m. at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.
