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Current number of female Masters of Wine in the world, out of a total of 390 worldwide. While both men and women have always been eligible to take the MS exams, it wasn’t until 1970 that a female became a Master of Wine—Sarah Morphew Stephen. Furthermore, 1979 was the first year that equal numbers of women and men passed the exam.

What is the Ark of Taste?

A. An international catalog of endangered foods

B. A history of the ways in which smell and taste have changed through human evolution

C. A term winemakers use for the way a wine can presents itself spatially on the palate

D. A compendium of foods mentioned in the Bible

The Ark of Taste is an international catalog of endangered heritage foods maintained by the global Slow Food movement. The goal is to preserve unique foods that reflect their culture and place, and to keep them from extinction by encouraging consumers to grow and eat those foods. Besides being rare, foods on the list must be “culturally or historically linked to a specific region, locality, ethnicity or traditional production practice.” The Ark of Taste was founded in 1996. Today, more than 5,000 products from more than 150 countries are on the list. Those foods include: Great Plains Bison from Canada; Bergamot Oranges from Calabria, Italy; Violet Asparagus from Liguria, Italy; Harrison Cider Apples from New Jersey; Meyer Lemons from California; White Strawberries from Chile; and Bull Boar Sausage from Australia. Slow Food publishes the catalog along with resources for those who want to grow or buy the foods on the list.

“Wine is one of the most civilized thing in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”

—Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon

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