What's Not Eating Gilbert Grape
585078
A poignant, character driven plot about the conflict between responsibilities and longings of a tangible, human soul. There is something for everyone to reflect from.
239951
My parrot Polly and I have enjoyed Red Oval SWT's for years. But much to our disappointment we have discovered that some bird-brain has decided to change the recipe of our favorite non-sugary snack. The pre-bird-brain (PBB) crackers had a unique somewhat earthy flavor due to the abundance of real stoned wheat grain and just the right dusting of salt. Now...the after-bird-brain (ABB)crackers disolve in Polly's beak like glob of mush. Polly can no longer eat her beloved RO-SWT's and carry on a conversation because she has mush-mouth and can't annunciate properly. Polly loved conversing, and due to her inability to do so, she has fallen into a deep chasm of depression. Please bring back the old (and improved) SWT's...Save Polly!
1170113
Just started reading the book and reviewed the daily menus. A major breakfast item is grapefruit, which do to my prescriptions I can not eat or drink. I reviewed other problems with grapefruit and Viagra type prescriptions is on the list of no no's. So far I have not found a place to ask questions regarding substitutions.
On WebMd they suggest substituting oranges lemons and limes for grapefruit.
 So my rating does not reflect actually using the diet as of this writing.
1074083
So far all of these grapes are living. Will see in the next couple of year if they produce well.
3551154
Very delicious grapes but small. I prefer the organic which are much larger. My only complaint is that they are sold in a 2 pound cockades which are a lot of grapes if you are a single person. They do last however.
1128348
This is extraordinarily good candy.

natural colours and flavours

gluten free

The inventor, Charles Gordon Maynard,  wanted to create a sweet that could be savoured and appreciated like a fine wine. Thus the name.  No wine in wine gums -- only fruit flavours.  really delicious fruit flavours.
593255
Dana Goodyear expands my knowledge of foods that people eat.  Goodyear teaches professional writing at the University of South California.  She is also a staff writer at the New Yorker.  I admire anyone who can make money in two jobs. I never thought that food trends could be a subject of professional writing, but Dana Goodyear changes my opinion of that.  She devotes one chapter to Jonathan Gold.  He is a food critic from Los Angeles that has actually won a Pulitzer Prize for his criticism. He has eaten bizarre foods like the ear of a pig and the penis of an ox. These foods do not sound appetizing.  He has also eaten dried beef curry.  This dish sounds pretty good to me.  I admire the career of Jonathan Gold.  I am also envious that he can eat at 300 to 500 restaurants a year.  I haven't even eaten at 300 restaurants in my life.

 Any animal that comes from the ocean is safer than  any food that comes from land.  I have always believed this. I would probably eat whale like Dana Goodyear did in Iceland.  She is a brave young woman who has tried the Filipino dish called balut. Balut is a live duckling eaten inside of a warm egg.  I admire Dana for trying this dish.  It is a food that I would definitely not eat. I learned about a new type of bean called the tonka bean. This bean smells like the vanilla bean.  It can used to make ice cream. However, it contains a substance called coumarin that causes internal bleeding.

 I am adventurous enough to eat some of the foods that Goodyear describes.  I would eat red bell peppers dipping dots.  I love to eat bell peppers.  I would try it even though it sounds unusual.  It is made with liquid nitrogen.  I would also try a caramel popcorn that is made with marijuana.  It is called caramel pot corn.  I would try it, because I think would relax my muscles and satisfy my sweet tooth.  I learned that that the cooks at Harvard University dinning hall serve horse steak.  This is a food I would try just as a different source of protein.  I learned that eating insects is a common practice. I would not try grasshopper tacos or ant eggs.  Goodyear writes about a young cook named Craig Thornton.  He has a restaurant in Los Angeles called Wolvesmouth.  I would be curious to eat his lamb dish with fennel, mushrooms and flowers. I have never even considered drinking raw milk.  Goodyear spends quite a bit of time discussing the fact that drinking raw milk can make people healthier.  Drinking unheated milk reduces rates of asthma and allergies.  This is a subject that I would like to research to get more information about these claims.  Anything That Moves is an insightful about food trends and the people in the food industry.
2352982
Deer and birds stayed away from our grapes for 10 days. Have to move them every 2 days.  I did - up on posts , then on ground, then up on different posts every 2 days. We own a 2 acre vineyard.
3739889
By Bill Marsano. We can divide wine drinkers into three classes. Ordinaire Joe, who'd rather drink wine than talk about it, is here advised to flee: This book will bore him stupid. The Wine Geek is just the opposite; for him wine is an excuse to prattle about clonal selection and hints of toffee on the nose. He'll love this book--will take it to bed with him. It is a gold mine of tasting notes covering many decades and innumerable wines from most regions of the world. The emphasis is on France, with Germany a distant third (there is no second), Italy a distant fifth (there is no fourth) and everybody else reduced to odds and ends. There's lots of stuff on champagne and port, too--a quintessentially British slant.
Never mind: The author, Michael Broadbent, is British, and the British have always leant that way. He is also one of the Great Men of Wine: revitalizer of Christie's wine auctions since 1966, writer, advisor, globe-trotting taster and collector of anecdotes and memories. In Japan such a person is officially labeled a Living National Treasure.
That makes this book of value and interest to the third class of wine drinkers--the Sub-Geek (or perhaps wannabe) who recognizes that his enjoyment of wine can be enhanced by a little more knowledge of its history and traditions, its lore and learing, its famous places and personages. There's a lot of that in this book, and it's always modestly and charmingly delivered. The reader must patiently winkle it out, however. It's all wrapped up in sidebars among those endless pages of tasting notes (about 500 of them) and is sometimes hidden inside individual tasting notes themselves.
This is the sort of book that will grace a shelf for a long time. There's no possibility of reading straight through it, and that's the wrong approach anyway. This book sits and waits for those late evenings with a last glass and an inquiring mind. It is to be leafed through for the pleasure of Broadbent's company.
--Bill Marsano is a wine and spirits writer who has won a James Beard medal and other awards.
4821914
This rice wine is produced specifically for cooking which means it has SALT in it. This is a technique employed by food service industry to keep kitchen staff from drinking the product while working.
So the wine tastes very salty and you must adjust your recipe accordingly.
I was not aware of this until I receive the product and tried.
Basically worthless to me.
625049
We're in the mid-1880s. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's collaboration is going through a bad patch. Their latest work, `Princess Ida', has failed to repeat their earlier triumphs. Sullivan is fed up and wants to go and write something terribly serious instead of all this silly light opera. Gilbert comes up with a new text but Sullivan is not interested. He refuses to set it. Gilbert refuses to shelve it and start from scratch on something new. Things are looking grim. Then Gilbert is persuaded to attend a big new exhibition of things Japanese... The rest is history.

And splendid history beautifully brought to the screen. People tend to love or hate G&S. I guess I used to be a hater but chucked it in: looking down one's nose at this shamefully middle-class, shamefully middle-brow jollification is easy and quite satisfying but also, let's face it, silly, precious and curmudgeonly: it's all just undeniable splendid fun. But even if you aren't crazy for G&S you'd be hard pressed to dislike this: one of the most intelligent recreations of London at the high water mark of the Victorian era, limited though it evidently is by budgetary constraints that ensure the entire film (almost) is composed of interior shots. The writing and acting is miraculous, and we see right past the strange clothes, petticoats and silly moustaches to vividly real people. Broadbent as Gilbert, in particular, is an absolute joy to behold. The rehearsal scenes for `The Mikado' where he terrorizes his cast into fearful submission, a masterpiece of understated humour. Others are excellent too. Allan Corduner as Sullivan; Wendy Nottingham as D'Oyly Carte's assistant Helen Lenoir, Lesley Manville as Gilbert's wife; and the mighty Timothy Spall as Savoy star performer Dickie Temple showing once again that he can simply do anything.

Mike Leigh was riding high in 1996 on the massive success of `Secrets and Lies' then perhaps went through a bit of a bad patch when `Career Girls' failed to repeat this. So it's tempting to think of this, his next project as his own `Mikado'. Certainly it's a spectacular departure from his previous work. And a wholly triumphant one.
2736300
My son has autism and as such we are careful of everything he eats as some studies show that children with autism may have it due to their body's inability to deal with toxic materials (such as heavy metals or pesticides) as easily as the rest of us.

Grapes are a prime example of pesticide retaining fruit, which is why should always wash grapes with a little detergent and then rinse them thoroughly before eating.

We don't need to worry about giving my boy these raisins though, they are delicious and the tiny extra premium we pay for them is well worth it, even if your son is NT. They come in little boxes though, so once you open the big bag be sure to seal them off so the grapes won't dry up if you don't eat them fast enough.

I made GFCF banana bread with these little guys in it and it was so good! My kid even tried it and finished his half-slice! And he is such a picky eater :) (I had to toast it because he doesn't like the mushy crumbly texture of GF bread, but still).

They're also great as a snack both in terms of yummyness and convenience, after his pool therapy he likes to sit down and eat a box or two in the shade, he even works at his fine motor skills by taking them out of the little box by himself!
2126576
I was pleasantly surprised at the great taste of this non-alcoholic wine. Due to health reasons NA wine is the only wine I can drink and the taste won me over. Sadly I am very limited to where I can find this wine. I would gladly but again.
1348051
i have tasted the regular worms and the sugar free worms. it is not necessary for me to limit my candy to sugar free.  i thought the worms had an after taste which i'm not fond of.  coworkers gobbled them up  without any  issues.
1747631
Love some of the other flavors by this company, but the grape version was way off on taste.  More like a banana snack with a hint of grape.  The box we received was also poor quality, almost like it had gotten too warm.  The actual fruit snacks would not peel away from the paper to the point that we just threw away the entire box.  In general would recommend this company (and Amazon) but I will not purchase the grape flavor again.
2029983
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a wonderful novel that any reader will fall in love with. It doesn't matter what your favorite genre of books is, you will learn to love such a natural novel as this. The characters Gilbert and Arnie make the story so entertaining and easy to identify with. The story explores their everyday lives and how they learn to deal with the problems that so many of us face ourselves. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is my most favorite book of all time.
Zachary B. Medina
Author of Decador
3646575
(2015-08-26 update:  OK.  So I've watched the first three seasons now, and admit that I am now hooked.  People didn't like my previous rating -- a 3 -- but to be fair, I wasn't familiar yet with the characters.  So I'm updating to a 4 because, well, "Falcon Crest" is a guilty pleasure.  And it's awesome to see Richard drink milk all the time, instead of just wine.  "Ooh, I think you'll like this show."  Gulp.)

My wife and I live about 20 minutes or so from the winery where this show was filmed, a winery that shall remain unnamed.  After all, from what I understand, the current owners of that winery want no association with this show, and can you blame them?  I sure don't.  So, from here on, I will call the winery "FC," after Falcon Crest.

Anyways, we were just at FC today, making a wine pickup, and tasting some of their fabulous wines, with one of the nicest gals that works in the entire area.  She will remain anonymous as well, only because I don't want her name associated with this nonsense either.  But while this show is borderline terrible, the wines at FC are not; they are some of the most Bordeaux-like wines that you will ever drink in Napa.  If you know anything about Napa wines, they can be fruit bombs, although I do like quite a few of the Sauvignon and Fume Blancs here.  Most of the Chardonnays are undrinkable "Butter Bandits," as Gary Vaynerchuck might groan.  Oh, sure, there are some very good Cabs here, I suppose.  But there are surely better red wines to be had, such as the Syrahs from Walla Walla, WA.  Yes, I'm not kidding; try some Cayuse, Reynvaan, or K (yes, "K" is the correct name, perhaps with an added "Vintners") sometime and you'll get onboard.  In a hurry.

And just like the fruit bombs from Napa, this show is an over-extracted mess as well.  I tell you, whoever was the writer for this show should have been fired faster than a one-handed grape picker.  I can't believe that it lasted a second season, or even longer than that.  But my wife and I just had to watch an episode or two of "Falcon Crest" after learning where it was filmed, and yes, we were as disappointed as Robert Parker after drinking a non-vintage BV.

But I will admit, I did get quite a few laughs.  The only soaps that I ever liked were "Melrose Place" (the original, not the reboot) and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," only because at least those shows made fun of the genre, and themselves.  In contrast, "Falcon Crest" seemed to think that it was good, which it was not.  I'm only giving it a 3 today because of my laughs.  And there were many.

As an example, here is a line from Season 2, Episode 1:

"You think that you can wrestle Falcon Crest away from me?  I know what you did; I know that you had a part in the death of my father.  So sign here, giving me controlling interest of Falcon Crest.  Otherwise, I'll call the DA faster than you can say 'Lickety Split' and then you'll be in prison, and you'll lose your half of the whole shebang.  And good luck getting a glass of Cab in the Big House."  (Ok, this wasn't verbatim; I took a few liberties.  But it's pretty close.)

Yeah, ouch.  With writing like that, maybe they should have just stuck to wine making.  But if you do enough peeking, you'll discover which winery this was filmed at, and you'll give their wines a chance.  And you won't use a spit bucket, unless you watch this show at the same time.