sense to me, um, to get rid of france. why don t we do a celebration of the region called california? so i wrote the menu, the california regional dinner. that was all in english, which was the first time. and we did california wines, which was the first time that we had focused on those completely and put on the dinner. jean-pierre: it was all local ingredients. i mean, it was starting to name the farm, starting to name the farmers, and also using everything we could find. jeremiah: and the press jumped all over it and the wine spectator said that, this was the match that started the fire of the revolution that then occurred in america called, you know, the new american cuisine. mario: the first thing they did is celebrate local ingredients. that was, above all, the most important thing is to say, listen, our scallops are better than the scallops in france. our oysters are at least as interesting as the oysters from
a lot of controversy surrounding who actually created it. does the film clear that up? yes. tony makes a very strong point about my contribution but actually like all great things, it was team work. it was alice and me and everybody but there was a moment in 1976 when we switched from a little california french south of france bistro and i wrote the menu called the california regional dinner. when i switched all the food from france to using local california ingredients, putting the menu in english, using california wines, and that caught the attention of the national press and then all hell broke loose. i know you were the executive chef at new york city s tavern on the green. why did you leave? i have a fatal attraction for the slim chance and tavern was a very slim chance. i left because the owners
keep going funding some of these crazy things. this one comes with a warning, this play that you paid $60,000 for of strong sexual content, sexual situations, nudity and fog. anyway, that s a production that went on this year in washington, d.c. if there s anything you don t need warning for, it s fog. meanwhile, there s another $210,000 you found to study if plants know when their leaves are being eaten. yeah. i for the life of me can t figure a reason to do that. i don t know what they do if they find out they re being eaten. right. but that s just the beginning. we publish something every week called pork chops where we look at some of this wasteful spending. the program in california, $7.1 million, this is real money, going to help export california wines overseas. i don t think earnest and jul
jinx robert durst is presented with a close match between his handwriting and the killer s. on the camera he appears unfazed. he walks to the restroom. his mic still on. the camera records as he talks to himself. there it is. you re caught. what the hell did i do? killed them all of course. bob durst didn t kill susan berman. he s ready to end the rumor and speculation and have a trial. the fbi asked authorities across the country to examine cold cases in the area where robert durst has lived. some popular california wines are served not in a glass but in court a class action lawsuit says dozens of wineries knowingly sold low cost wines with too much arsenic. some of the wines exceeded
seen already in some of the data that s coming out is taking a downshift already. well, some companies are adjusting to the new reality of american wineries are i guess popping the cork of the champagne. chocolate and wine when things are bad make it feel a whole lot better. we ve got new figures from the wine institute showing that wine exports set a record high of over $1.4 billion in revenue last year. and 90% of those exports came from california, you know, places like the napa valley, very nice. the european union remains the top market for california wines. that accounts for about 34% of all sales. and exports to some sort of growing markets emerging markets like china, south korea, and vietnam are also showing strong growth as well. they are really catching on and enjoying american wines. chris? all right. cnbc s mandy drury, thanks very much. thank you. tax day is less than two months away. here is how we plan to spend our