Friday, February 24, 2012

Coevolution of champagne and glasses

Remember the debate in an earlier blog about whether or not Belgian beers and glasses had co-evolved?

http://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-did-i-learn-today-lessons-from.html

And the subsequent follow up:

http://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2011/09/coevolution-of-beer-and-glasses-redux.html

The newest word comes from the champagne world, suggesting that drinks and glasses are not nicely co-evolved:

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/litee/food/article_food/flute-or-coupe-maximising-the-champagne-experience/

And here is the paper:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030628

Thanks to Shahin Muttalib for finding this.

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