Champion of Fine Cheese Daphne Zepos Dies at 52

Daphne Zepos, internationally recognized authority in the cheese, the experience includes buy it, sell it, which is especially the almost transcendental experience of eating it, died Tuesday at home in San Francisco. He was 52 years.

The cause was lung cancer, her husband, Brad Brown said.

A writer, lecturer, consultant, importer, and the judge of cheese chef competition, Mrs. Zepos was, like the New York Times wrote in 2005 ", one of the most authoritative voices in the field of American cheese." (In this recognition, "American cheese" is not mentioned in American cheese.)

From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Zepos was associated with the center of artisanal cheese, a vast complex of Brennan Terrace restaurant in Manhattan, where the old cheese before being sent to consumers, stores and restaurants.

In 2006, he helped found the Essex Street Cheese Company. Headquartered in New York, imports and wholesalers, a small number of cheeses of Europe.

The main one is Earl, a cousin of French Gruyere, as Mrs. Zepos enthusiastically told the newspaper San Francisco Chronicle in 2006, it triggers "tsunami wave of burning" in the mouth "and let the incredible flavor of the cream and butter in language. "

Ms. Zepos to talk even more poetic. In the description of sensory pleasures of cheese in particular, her husband said Thursday, could have invoked Homer, Mark Rothko, the soul music of Stax / Volt Records, and the pianist Glenn Gould in a single breath happy.

Last year, Mrs. Zepos became owner of the Cheese School of San Francisco, the country's only independent institution of learning dedicated to cheese.

Ms. Zepos work - as well as his writings on the cheese for the website of The Atlantic magazine and elsewhere - has helped lead the current interest in artisanal cheese consumers in the United States.

"Twenty years ago, the image of cheese, as opposed to a very small percentage of Americans who had traveled much, was actually a cheese of the mass market," Ari Weinzweig, founder and CEO of Zingerman, the concern gourmet foods Ann Arbor, Michigan, said on Thursday. "Today, thanks to the leadership of Daphne and education and training, a much larger portion of the American people understand what is the traditional cheese, and it can be."

Ms. Zepos was the anthropologist as an ambassador, for his journeys in search of a good cheese brought to the farms and pastures of small producers throughout Europe and the United States.

The best of his work, used to say, was imbued with the flavor of the mountains and meadows and the life stories of the cheese makers themselves, or so it seemed.

"I wanted people to support small producers of cheese and understand all the work and love that went into it," said Corby Kummer, senior editor of The Atlantic and a writer on food, Thursday . "He said that people can appreciate the full range of aromas and flavors and how to see and feel the cheese -. Literally Toca'l, who cracks, understanding the structure"

In perhaps his most important role, Mrs. Zepos was gerontòleg cheese. More precisely, it was a refiner, as someone who oversees the aging of the cheese its peak exquisite, carefully calibrated known.

The profession that combines the skills of the artist, chemistry and the nanny, is one in which only a few dozen people in the United States can boast.

It was this work that requires Zepos Mrs. Craft, who chairs the center of five caves, "walk-in refrigerators with tightly controlled temperature and humidity there, the cheese in moderation and with exquisite tenderness -. Years old, transformed sometimes it was washed in wine or beer - before it is considered mature enough to use.

Daphne Zepos was born in Athens July 13, 1959, Costa and Greta Zepos. His father was a Greek diplomat, and was raised in Athens, London, Geneva and Brussels. He studied Medieval History at the University of Kent, England, and architecture at the Architectural Association, a trade school in London.

In 1987, his father became the Greek ambassador to the United Nations, and Mrs. Zepos moved with his family in the U.S.

He studied at the New York School Peter Kump Cooking (now the Institute of Culinary Education), and later worked at Campton Place Hotel in San Francisco, where his responsibilities included assembling the basket buy cheeses and push through the lunch room.

Ms. Zepos first time marriage ended in divorce, she married Mr. Brown, an artist in 1994. He survives, along with his parents and a sister, Amalia Zepou.

To travel with Mrs. Zepos on an isolated farm in the mountains, to attend one of their classes or even start a casual conversation state, his colleagues said to be overwhelming in the presence of an evangelist.

"It has never been so indifferent," said Kummer. "He loved what he did. He liked the people who made the cheese. He loved to see the light in your eyes when you put a piece of cheese in his mouth."

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Marijuana Opponent Dr. Gabriel G. Nahas Dies at 92

Dr. Gabriel G. Nahais, a controversial medical researcher who became leader of the crusaders against marijuana after being surprised to hear, at a meeting of the PTA in 1969, in the diffusion of the drug, died June 28 in Manhattan. He was 92 years.

The cause was a respiratory infection, his family said.

Dr. Nahaix conducted an investigation to find the physiological effects of smoking marijuana, has written 10 books on drugs and became one of the leaders of drug organizations. It was seen as an ally of Nancy Reagan in her "say no" to drugs campaign, as the first lady in 1980.

Dr. Naharro has seen his campaign against drugs nothing less than a continuation of the struggle against totalitarianism, which began during World War II as a French resistance leader decoration, such as totalitarianism, he argues, drugs of slave mind.

It was awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States and the Order of the British Empire for his wartime heroism.

His research, which he did as a professor at Columbia University and reported in more than 700 articles in scientific journals, has suggested that marijuana has contributed to the head and neck cancers, leukemia, sterility, brain damage and a weakened immune system.

He has also written two books about cocaine, which he said could cause irreversible damage to the brain.

Dr. Nahaix was known both for his defense than his science. He was president of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth, and the National Association of Family.

He was consultant to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs of 1980 and '90. In 1985, he appeared in an event against drugs with Mrs. Reagan and the actor William Shatner, who was in costume as his most famous character, Captain Kirk of "Star Trek." Dr. Nahaix often testified in hearings of the Government.

His critics within the scientific community, sometimes attacked their methodology, questioned the large judgments are often made based on the sample size. Organizations that promote the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana is presented as a villain.

The New England Journal of Medicine, once described his work as "psychopharmacological mccarthysme which forces to use half-truths, innuendo and statements not verifiable."

However, Robert L. DuPont, the drug czar in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Dr. Nahaix called "the Paul Revere of the drug," saying. "He just lit the beacon warning of the ongoing threat of epidemic abuse drugs "

Georges Nahaix Gabriel was born in Alexandria, Egypt, March 4, 1920, the son of a Lebanese father and French mother. When I was little, she asked her family about people passing on the street who seemed drunk or lethargic and said they were addicted to hashish.

He was a medical student at the University of Toulouse during the Second World War when the Germans occupied France has found anti-Nazi leaflets in his room.

It was brutally beaten and imprisoned, but refused to speak. He joined the Resistance against the Nazis and helped transport some 200 Allied airmen shot down by security.

After the war, he traveled to the United States by the broader scientific education and graduated from the University of Rochester in New York and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He completed a doctorate in physiology from the University of Minnesota cardiopulmonary.

Conservatism Dr. Nahaix extended beyond narcotics. In 1970 marshaled his public persona has recently signed with ads in newspapers that criticize opponents of the Vietnam War.

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Black Woman Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly dies at 92

Leontine T.C. Kelly, a daughter and wife of ministers who followed his calling and became the first black bishop in the woman a major Christian denomination, when the United Methodist Church raised its position in 1984, has died. He was 92 years.

Kelly, who oversaw the Northern California and Nevada for the 1984-1988 church, while based in San Francisco, died on June 28 announced the name. She had been in poor health for some time, living in a nursing home in Oakland.

When Kelly was appointed bishop at the age of 64 years, has become the second woman to hold this position at the United Methodist Church.

He also served as president of the legal designation of the Western bishops, assuming the duties of managing director and spiritual guide of the 100,000 members of his flock.

Kelly, who is regarded as a social activist and political leader and spiritual, has supported the inclusion of gays and lesbians in the church organization, ministry to AIDS patients and has ruled against nuclear weapons and armed conflict.

"All my life, my own political, social and spiritual are moved together," said Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2002. "I could not separate them."

I 'Leontine Turpeau was born March 5, 1920, in Washington, DC, the seventh of eight children, and as a child moved with his family in Cincinnati. His father, the Rev. David DeWitt Turpeau Sr., was a Methodist Episcopal minister and four times member of the Ohio Legislature.

His mother, Ila, was African-American activist who co-founded the Urban League in Cincinnati. The family lived in a parish house, which was a station on the Underground Railroad where slaves fleeing the South stopped to rest.

Kelly enrolled in what is now West Virginia State University but left school to marry Gloster Bryant Current, a director who has worked for the NAACP and as assistant pastor at the United Methodist Church. They had three children before divorcing.

In 1956 she married James David Kelly, who was an ordained Methodist minister. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was pastor and studied at the University Virginia Union University, where he graduated with a degree in 1960.

He taught high school history and social studies, and trained to become a lay preacher in the church.

When her husband died in 1969, Kelly has asked his congregation to take office. She hesitated, but after deciding that he had a vocation to become a minister, returned to school and earned a master's in divinity from what was then the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond.

He was ordained deacon in 1972 and an elder in 1977, led a United Methodist Church in Richmond for six years.

In 1983, Kelly moved in the direction of the Church, the service staff of the national board of discipleship of the United Methodist Church in Nashville.

A year later he was elected bishop, after several rounds of voting. Replaced Marjorie S. Matthews, the first woman bishop of the denomination, which was removed.

When asked if Jesus wanted his disciples in 1989, Kelly had an answer ready.

"We recognize the type of culture in which Jesus and his disciples lived," he told USA Today. "" It was a very macho culture. However, Jesus has violated the customs of the culture in the sense that he spoke with the women share with women. The women were part of the circle of Jesus Christ. God calls you call God. "

After retiring as bishop in 1988, Kelly has continued to speak at conferences and has taught at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.

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Martin L. Swig Dies at 78

When viewed today, rare cars, like Lancia Lambda 1925, 1941 or 1953 Tatra T87 1900 Coupe Pininfarina Alfa Romeo are generally fixed, delivered to the sample auto dealerships or inelegant trailers.

With the founding of the California Mille, an event known worldwide and manages classic sports cars of more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain roads of Northern California, Swiga Martin said that people see the cars that do what they should do: eat the hot asphalt.

Swiga Sr., who died Tuesday at age 78, he organized the first California Mille in 1991. The tour of the cars built in 1957 or before, lasting four days from the last Sunday in April, and for many twenty kilometers along the northern coast of California extraordinary view.

Around 75 vehicles around the world join the tour each year, each owner pays nearly $ 6,000 to enter.

Mr. Swiga, who also owned one of the first performances of several major automobile franchises in the United States, died in Greenbray, California, and lived in Sausalito. His son David said he had a stroke on Sunday.

The California Mille is based in the Italian Mille Miglia, an endurance race from Brescia to Rome and back that was from 1927 until 1957. Swiga and Mr. John Lamm of Road and Track magazine has participated in a revival of 1955, the 1982 Alfa Romeo Mille Swiga Mr. Zagat 1900. Then it was about 50 thousand events in Japan and Australia, Italy and California.

The Tour of California requires an exceptionally dedicated unit, said Swiga Sports Car Digest in 2011. "They have a car driving off and not just once a year," he said. "One has to be one with your car."

Many car collectors focus on one brand or model, but the collection of Mr. Swiga about 30 cars is eclectic. In addition to the rarity of the above, has had five different models of Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a pair of 510S and a Datsun Toyota Corona 1968 Hardtop two doors. His most recent was a 2013 Subaru BRZ.

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