HAPPY NEW YEAR!
December 31, 2007 by michael
Gung hay fat choy (a New Year greeting meaning, “May you become prosperous.”)
Sun nien fai lok (meaning, “Happy new year”)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Xin nian yu kuai
Danish
Godt Nytår
Dutch
Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Farsi
Aide shoma mobarak
French
Bonne année
German
Gutes Neues Jahr
Hawaiian
Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew
Shanah tovah
Italian
Buon Capo d’Anno
Japanese
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu
Polish
Szczesliwego Nowego roku
Portuguese
Feliz ano novo
Romanian
La Multi Ani
Russian
S Novym Godom
Spanish
Feliz Año Nuevo
Swedish
Gott Nytt År
Turkish
Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Six months ago I decided to start a food and wine blog that highlighted the wine and restaurant scene in Baltimore, as well as took a laid back, more informal approach to learning about wine. Well now going into 2008, I couldn’t be happier with its success. Readership has exponentially grown since the launch of the website with more than 3500 unique visitors this month alone! I would like to thank everyone who visits and ask you, the readers to give me some feedback on how you think I can improve the site. I am very thankful for the comments and criticisms I receive and love learning about wine with you all.
That being said, I wish you all an amazing 2008 and hope that together we can keep making wine informal and fun!
I leave you with this:
“In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.”
Ernest Hemingway –A Moveable Feast
Cheers,
Michael Mohammadi
Happy New Year! One of my resolutions is to contribute more to the site and offer a different perspective to some of the wines Mike posts about. Although we often share the same general opinions about our wines, we definitely butt heads over several styles of reds and whites. I anticipate that it will be much more fun to debate wine ratings rather than who’s turn it is to do the dishes! (Bye the way Mike, its your turn tonight…)
Funny, I was just thinking about writing it in Farsi, when I saw your name and realized Its already there.
Anyway: Saale no Mobaarak:-)
X M