Gauchos are a proud race, but open, and any doubts about Magan's credentials were dispelled by her lack of pretension and excellent horsemanship (she admitted to entertaining them once by riding backwards in the saddle while playing catch with a bota bag, a wine receptacle made from the stomach of a cow).
In Paris between the world wars Vallejo and his girlfriend would pick out the empty wine bottles in trash receptacles to earn their keep.
Scattered around the otherwise cozy room are dozens of wine bottles, Mason jars and other assorted receptacles, all of which have been turned into Molotov cocktails.
On view are cooking beakers, wine and storage jars, grinding and mixing receptacles, plates, dishes and bowls in stoneware and porcelain, sake bottles and flasks, oil-drip plates, ornamental sculpture pieces and flower arrangements, including a number of rarities.
It is often said that our perception of wine varies as a function of the receptacle in which it is presented.
The most-sacred furnishings of temples are those most closely related to altars, such as the Jewish ark of the Law (Torah), or aron ha-qodesh, in the synagogues, which is made in the image of Moses Arkk of the Covenant, and the tabernacle (the receptacle containing the consecrated bread and wine) of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
When the wine starts going, insert the tube quickly into the receptacle and try to keep the flow "quiet".
The process involves gravity, so it's absolutely essential that the full carboy of wine be higher than the tallest portion of the clean receptacle you're going to use to catch the wine, or else the process won't work.
There, copper cookware is sold in nearly every size and shape imaginable, including circular skillets, square roasters and rectangular braising boxes, which would double nicely as a wine cooler, a small file holder for one's desk or a safe receptacle for burning love letters -- what with the lid and all.
To chill a bottle of wine in a jiffy, you just need an ice bucket -- or a less classy but equally large receptacle -- plus some ice, water, and lots of salt.
Receptacles usually have three purposes.
