Monkey See, Monkey tips his Waiter
a Science Feature

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Writer

Tuesday April 10th, 2007

Have you ever been hanging out with your buddies, watching the game, and suddenly realize that you are all sitting with basically the same posture? Or have you perhaps caught yourself fighting the urge to scratch your nose just after watching a friend do the same? Don’t worry, there’s nothing unusual about it – actually it’s a phenomenon psychologists have been documenting for years. And believe it or not, this research has recently been used to explain why some servers get bigger tips than others.

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Science Feature

Screwy Solutions

By Darryl Korell
A special to Eat Vancouver
Saturday, February 18th, 2006

California’s PlumpJack winery is well known for its Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon wines, which sell for about $155 a bottle. But it is not their taste or their price that makes them noteworthy; these PlumpJack wines have screw tops.

It used to be unimaginable to see anything other than cork when purchasing more expensive wines. But, today, many wineries such as Calera, Sonoma-Cultrer, and Wolf Blass put screw tops on some of their higher end wines.

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