Today, Adelaide is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food, wine and culture, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors.

:* Minneapolis has a celebration in Uptown with wine, French food, pastries, a flea market, circus performers and bands.

The most important non-mineral exports are forestry and wood products, fresh fruit and processed food, fishmeal and seafood, and wine.

She invited Odysseus ' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also laced with one of her magical potions, and she turned them all into swine with a wand after they gorged themselves on it.

But The Lord's Supper is now commonly used in reference to a celebration involving no food other than the sacramental bread and wine.

In Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by the owners to other uses ( e. g., wine cellars, ski rooms, gyms ).

Hispania supplied Rome with food, olive oil, wine and metal.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

The Taste of Tasmania is a major part of the festival, where locals and visitors can taste fine local and international food and wine.

Stalin preferred Georgian wine over Russian vodka, but usually ate traditional Russian food.

" Isaac proceeded to eat the food and to drink the wine that Jacob gave him, and then told him to come close and kiss him.

He is an expert on matters of food ( especially wine ) and male fashion, and on classical music.

* Larousse gastronomique: the encyclopedia of food, wine & cookery, Ed.

In food and wine pairings, the diversity of Merlot can lend itself to a wide array of matching options.

On 25 April 2009, on Sky television's Soccer AM, Hugh Jackman called Margaret River the best place he's ever been to, citing the surf, the beaches, the food, the wine, the people and the air as his reasons for thinking so.

Before Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microorganisms in 1675, it had been a mystery why grapes could be turned into wine, milk into cheese, or why food would spoil.

Mycology ( from the Greek μύκης, mukēs, meaning " fungus ") is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals ( e. g., penicillin ), food ( e. g., beer, wine, cheese, edible mushrooms ) and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or infection.

* 222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

He also regulated how much food and wine they could consume.

Shinsen ( food offerings of fruit, fish, vegetables ), Tamagushi ( Sakaki Tree Branches ), Shio ( salt ), Gohan ( rice ), Mochi ( rice paste ), and Sake ( rice wine ) are all typical offerings.

Gangleri asks if Odin himself eats the same food as the Einherjar, and High responds that Odin needs nothing to eat — Odin only consumes wine — and he gives his food to his wolves Geri and Freki.

Vermouth can be used as a substitute for white wine in food recipes.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

She could not face coffee or tea without milk, and was always craving types of food that were not available aboard a sailing ship.

Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

And once medicine, food, clothing and shelter had been provided for the flood's victims, communications and the mail were the next top problems.

Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.

They also instituted a ration system under which all employers in the Congo were required to furnish their employes with clothing and adequate food.

There were no other tetrapods on the land and the amphibians were at the top of the food chain, occupying the ecological position currently held by the crocodile.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

They were allowed to have family members bring in their own food and were on good terms with the guards from whom they learned the latest news.

2562 ) aimed at phasing out nontherapeutic use of antibacterials in US food animals were proposed, but have not passed.

With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.

The officers were expected to grow food, but they considered this beneath them.

The colony was still very short of skilled farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, and the convicts continued to work as little as possible, even though they were working mainly to grow their own food.

In an attempt to demoralize Abd al-Rahman's troops, al-Fihri ensured that his troops not only were well fed, but also ate gluttonous amounts of food in full view of the Umayyad lines.

Fishing, hunting and gathering were the only way Aleuts could find food.

The products of oak trees were once an important food for swine and a farmstead may have been named for such produce.

They were called food -, or cooking-brethren, because they prepared the meals together.

Deaths from tourists and locals becoming stranded on outback trips occasionally occur, sometime because insufficient water and food supplies were taken, or because people have walked away from their vehicle in search of help.

The canines were somewhat elongated and were followed by a short gap in each jaw, and the cheek-teeth were adapted for succulent food.