In glorious warm weather like this, if you’re going to drink a Chardonnay, make it something crisp and minerally like this fine Macon. The fruit carries hints of celery seed, anise and melon. Lithe and elegant, this Maconnais Chardonnay isn’t weighed down with oak. The price is right too, from this undervalued region. The Larochette Manciat — Macon (Burgundy) 2009 (Los Angeles Times/MCT)Drink it w

A Japanese restaurant has opened in the Sinmuro neighborhood, offering a new choice for the many office workers in the area jaded by the usual offerings of Korean eateries.Yamaya, which bills itself as “Hakata motsunabe dining and bar,” offers a choice of five set menus during lunch hour: Deep-fried chicken seasoned with Pollack roe; Hakata Gameni, chicken braised in soy-seasoned broth with chunks

Haemul-pajeon is a savory pancake with plenty of green onion and seafood coated with mushy dough and beaten egg on top. It is a well-harmonized dish studded with soft green onions and tasty seafood. Dongnae-pajeon is a famous dish from Busan in South Gyeongsang Province. Dongnae-pajeon (KTO)Ingredients ● 100 g mussel flesh, 70 g clam flesh, 70 g oysters● 200 g small green onions ● 1 green pepper ●

Gangwon Province dish is a versatile, do-it-yourself take on chilled noodlesOutside the weathered storefront of Chuncheon Makguksu in Euljiro-4-ga, Seoul, patrons file in to grab a table and enjoy the establishment’s famed noodles. Even past lunch hour, the restaurant is packed. Bowl after bowl of the traditional Gangwon Province dish, “makguksu,” arrives. In the kitchen, a woman works with a cont

CANNES, France ― This year’s Cannes Film Festival is filled with big-budget movies like “Puss in Boots” and “Kung Fu Panda 2,” but on Thursday evening, the focus was on the realm of independent film. Cannes judge Uma Thurman and actress Rosario Dawson were honored for their contributions to indie film. Also lauded were “Sleeping Beauty” director Jane Campion and the film’s producer, Jessica Brentn

DAEGU ― Daegu has successfully hosted an international athletics competition, which was interpreted as a dress rehearsal for this summer’s IAAF Word Championships, producing some world record-breaking actions from world’s top athletes. But the pre-championships event also showed that the level of Korean athletes still lags far behind other competitors.The Colorful Daegu Pre Championships meeting w

 WASHINGTON (AFP) – A moon of Jupiter is the only place other than Earth in our solar system where volcanoes occur, and scientists have found an ocean of magma beneath its surface that feed its potent eruptions.Io is the most volcanic object known in the solar system, producing 100 times more lava than Earth, and data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has shed new light on how that happens, said the

Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 68 people _ nearly all recruits _ in the bloodiest attack in the country since a U.S. raid killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped but front-line force in Paki

The bodies of eight decapitated men were dumped Thursday along roads in Durango, a drug-gang-plagued northern Mexican state already grappling with the horror of discovering mass graves where 196 corpses have been unearthed so far.Six of the naked bodies were found along a highway leading out of the state capital of Durango city, their heads lying nearby, according to a statement from the state att