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Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect

Rose Thomas Bannister

Learn about wine and language with Rose Thomas Bannister and her fascinating friends from Italy and around the world on the podcast about local drinks and local sayings!

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59:23

EN S4E12 Cheryl Kingan, Student of Liquids

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/12/06

When she's not playing the baritone sax, Cheryl Kingan sells wine in New York City. She previously worked in specialty coffee for many years. Cheryl's interest in drinks is not only culinary: this passion has naturally led her to advocate for sustainable agriculture and community development. She loves educating her clients and the public about indigenous grape varieties from Greece, Eastern Europe, Italy and Slovenia. Cheryl and Rose Thomas talk about the life of a "student of liquids," a term

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33:31

S4E9 Stefan Kisyov's Glagolitic Novel

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/11/16

The Hagiographer is a historical fiction novel about the 9th century philosopher who invented the Glagolitic alphabet and his rogue biographer. I was riding the New York City subway when I ran into my friend Vlada Tomova, who runs a Bulgarian woman's choir. She was with the Bulgarian writer Stefan Kisyov and his family, on the way back from an event at the Bulgarian embassy that celebrated the publication of his book The Hagiographer. To give family a little taste of New York, Vlada was taking

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54:00

S4E8 Serena Jost and the Mountain

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2025/10/31

Visionary cellist and composer Serena Jost grew up between Switzerland and Michigan, speaking the Swiss German language with her family and climbing up on the roof with a homemade radio antennae to take in the sounds of languages she didn't know. Serena writes lyrics that are poetic rather than narrative, takes inspiration from literature, and composes some songs in wordless or invented tongues. Serena describes the mind-opening, terrifying shapes of the Swiss Alps and their effect on human

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4:17

S4E6 My Husband's Duolingo Obsession (Bonus Episode...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/10/11

Rose Thomas Bannister's husband, Bob, has a 2100 day Duolingo streak. For a while, he was doing 14 languages a day. But is he "conversational"? Is he fluent? Does that matter? Access the exclusive full interview by becoming a paid supporter at patreon.com/mododibere. When he's not collecting records and linguistic knowledge, Bob Bannister is an influential guitar player whose solo albums helped inspire the "freak folk" genre. He plays guitar with Rose Thomas. You can check out their most recent

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23:25

S4E5 Sibling Harmony at Georgian Royal Wine

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/10/05

Ineza Karalashvili been making wine in the Kakheti region of Georgia for over sixty years, together with her brother Tamaz. Their family has been making and selling wine for generations before that, with forebears among the influential "Merchants of the First Guild" in the nineteenth century.Ineza, who recently turned 85, is the wine chemist responsible for quality control at Georgian Royal Wine, and Tamaz is the head winemaker. They work together with the family’s younger generation, including

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33:16

S3E13 Uranio: the Unconfined New Album by Ou

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/02/13

Ou has a new album, Uranio! Amy Denio translates for composer Ersilia Prosperi, and speaks for herself as Ersilia's producer and bandmate in the dynamic, multilingual band Ou. The theme music of the Modo di Bere podcast comes from Ou's album Pisces Crisis. You can purchase Ou's first two albums at oumusic.bandcamp.com, and grab the new album at folderolrecords.bandcamp.com.Uranio is the perfect album to investigate the connections between biodiversity and linguistic diversity. The title comes from

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29:35

S3E10 "The Woman Can": Angela and Marianna of...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/01/23

Angela and Marianna Velenosi discuss the local wine grapes of Marche and Abruzzo, describing the history, flavors and names of white grapes like Verdicchio, Pecorino, and Trebbiano, and red grapes like Montepulciano and Lacrima. Hear some local sayings from Abruzzo, where Angela is from, and Marche, where her daughter Marianna grew up, and learn why Marianna describes the Marche region as “a gem that has not been discovered yet" in terms of tourism. Angela struck out on her own to build her wine

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48:05

S3E8 "You Have to Like Yourself," says Abe Zarate,...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/01/12

When Abe Zarate chose sobriety during the pandemic, he returned to his restaurant career with a new reality. Abe shares the logistics of working around alcohol without consuming it. This episode is a frank discussion about what it's like for wine professionals who decide to consume less alcohol. Is Dry January a threat to the industry? Does neo-prohibition truly loom? The two sommeliers discuss recent news around alcohol and health and how the industry has responded so far. (RT is not

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01:06:15

S3E7 Brian Gelletly, Barista Trainer, Spits Out His...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2025/01/03

Brian Gelletly is a barista trainer with a sensitivity to caffeine. Brian and Rose Thomas share the secrets of beverage professionals who spend their days spitting out their favorite drinks In Modo di Bere's first episode about coffee. They divulge specific spitting techniques, from spittoon styles to mustache technique, along with general advice for avoiding machismo and protecting your health as a student of liquids. Brian and RT consider parallels between coffee and wine in terms of biodiversity,

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59:44

S3E6 Wine Faults and Flaws with Dr. Rachel B. Allison...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/12/27

When the waiter pours a taste of wine for you and it's your job to inspect that wine for flaws, while the sommelier and your fellow dinner guests look on, this episode is your guide to how to taste that wine with confidence. Wine flavor scientist Dr. Rachel B. Allison and Rose Thomas go over the different smells and tastes that answer the question "How do you know if a wine has gone off?" once and for all. Even better, Dr. Allison tells us exactly how those rotten egg and wet cardboard smells (to

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56:16

S3E5 Blind Tasting with Dr. Rachel B. Allison, Wine...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/12/20

Blind tasting—deducing the grape, age and geographic origin of a wine based on sensory analysis alone—can seem like the wine world’s most mystical practice. Wine flavor scientist Dr. Rachel B. Allison came on the Modo di Bere podcast to break down exactly how it’s done. You can watch Dr. Allison blind taste a wine in the video version of the podcast, and maybe even start to learn how to blind taste wine yourself. Dr. Allison chats with RT about how she grew up bilingual, thinking in a

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44:26

The Revolutionary Donkey: Sicilian Folk Music History...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/12/14

You can wash a donkey’s head, but you’ll waste your water, your soap, and your time. If you have a woman, a drum, and a duck, you have a revolution. You’ve got more horns than a chariot full of snails. Do you want to know what these sayings mean? Do you think donkeys are cute? Do you like history, music or Sicily? This episode is for you!The conversation between Modo di Bere host Rose Thomas and Sicilian American singer and folklorist Michela Musolino is centered around two southern Italian folk

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03:48

BONUS EP PREVIEW: Michele Thomas Reads Her Memoir...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/12/06

This is just a preview of our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. You can listen to the entire episode, and watch the full video, by becoming a supporter at the Podcast Lover level. Just visit the link patreon.com/mododibere in your web browser to sign up and unlock this bonus content. "Under Construction" is a memoir essay about building a home out of food, in the projects of East New York and at the International Culinary Center. The author, Michele Thomas, is now editor and columnist at Modo di

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48:06

Shift Drink: Michele Thomas on Writing Wine & Working...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/12/06

Michele Thomas is a writer, sommelier and the manager and buyer at a neighborhood wine shop in Brooklyn. RT and Michele are old friends from RT's wine rep days. They get together to dish about the purpose of tasting notes, the art of wine writing, and how to welcome new drinkers into the world of wine. Also: pairing Italian wine with jerk chicken, wine as a second or third act career, Cynar and tonic with a lime as the perfect "shift drink" after a day of retail hospitality. In a special

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57:52

A Lot of Life to Live: Sam Bail's Post-Alcohol Community

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/02/23

Sam Bail was feeling better. So much better that two months into her sobriety experiment, she knew she wasn’t going back to drinking alcohol. But she missed her softball team, and all the other relationships she made at her local watering hole—her “third place,” where she socialized when not at work or at home in a tiny apartment. And this is New York. In a city that has everything, was nursing a seltzer all night really Sam’s only option?Find out what Rose Thomas thinks of Dry January, listen

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54:33

New York is the Place for Giulia Álvarez-Katz

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/01/25

The gustatory glory of multicultural NYC has been food writer Giulia Álvarez-Katz's stomping ground for as long as she can remember. Rose Thomas dusts off her mixology skills with a custom Third Place cocktail in honor of Giulia's video series about the places where New Yorkers loiter, shoot the shit and congregate. RT and Giulia discuss the process, if any, of becoming a New Yorker. Giulia dishes on: Her favorite takeout. Breaking up at the bar. Experts. Accent shaming. The unofficial official

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01:10:39

Michaele Weissman on the Meaning of Bread

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2024/01/12

In her literary memoir The Rye Bread Marriage, author and food writer Michaele Weissman turns her skills with history, psychology and adventure to her own family story. This interview begins with the gonzo travel that led to Michaele's seminal book on specialty coffee. It goes on to describe the Latvian poetry and the loaves of bread that opened up Michaele's understanding in ways that surprised her as a writer and as a human being in love with a theoretical physicist war refugee. Born in Latvia

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31:02

Sparkling Wine from The Mountains: Trento DOC with...

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2023/12/31

As an advocate for small growers with her company Wine Soul, Alessandra Caroni educates us about Trento DOC, a sparkling wine made in the classic method from grapes grown in the Dolomite Mountains. Maso Martis is the organic brand she represents in Trento DOC. These wines from the Northern Italian region of Trentino area fantastic value for sparkling wine fans who are shopping outside the champagne box. (For another example of champagne method wine, known as "metodo classico" in Italy, check out

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01:07:54

Rye Revolution: Whiskey and Bread with Avery Robinson

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2023/12/15

Culinary historian and bakery manager Avery Robinson works with a nonprofit called Rye Revival, encouraging people to plant and enjoy more rye. Avery explains what’s special about rye for ecology, distillation, nutrition and cultural connection. He shares Yiddish drinking sayings and thoughts on drinking as an agricultural act while he and Rose Thomas taste Balcones rye whiskey and enjoy three types of rye bread from Black Rooster Food. There is a bit of New York City street noise early in the

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01:10:54

The Boot in 20: Lombardia (with Susannah Gold)

Modo di Bere: Drinks & Dialect ·

2023/12/01

Susannah Gold returns as the expert on Lombardia for the Modo di Bere series The Boot in 20. For each of Italy's 20 wine regions, Rose Thomas asks an expert to bring the map to life, identifying major grapes, wines, soils and microclimates. Susannah tells stories about the region's history, considers the future in terms of climate change, and shares advice about planning a visit! What's the smallest DOCG in Italy? What do they call the grape Tocai Friulano in Lombardia? What does the Red Cross

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