Wine project

[hotwine]

Wow, did this thread go off on tangents! My two-bits' worth on this subject:
1. I also exchanged emails with this person, and he signed one of them "Peter", so is likely a male.
2. Concur that he is a student in a culinary school.
3. His work on this particular assignment, of matching wines with dishes listed on a menu, seems to have been put off until the last minute, due to a lack of experience in performing research on wine pairings. He's learning to be a chef, not a sommelier, and he was a bit desparate for wine information because he had zero data before posting his plea with us.
4. I don't have a problem with students using the Web for research - I think it's a great idea. They should be cautioned by their instructors not to embrace as truths everything they find there, but most of them learn the same caution about the printed texts that they find in a library. The Web in that way is a lot like a library, but without the oversight that's provided by little old blue-haired ladies who tut-tut as you reach for Lady Chatterly's Lover. (Sorry, Mom (she's a retired librarian...)).