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Ms. Chatelaine for the month of May, Alejandra de Miguel, owner of Vintage One Wines, a bespoke winery in Toronto, talks about her family legacy and Argentinian wine pedigree.

The Cheater coq au vin recipe caught my eye as a great dish to prepare for Mother’s Day. The picture looked lovely and any recipe with a French name has to be good. Think about it, you know I’m right. Plus, the word ‘Cheater’ in the title meant two things to me: 1) that there was something about the original non-cheater recipe that increased its level of preparation difficulty and that 2) this level of difficulty had been removed in the ‘cheater’ version and, likely, the consumer of the dish would be none the wiser.

A new website breaks down a classic holiday-party conundrum: What cheese should I serve with this fruity pinot?

And four more awesome things that happened this week. Because we could all use more good news.

This is Cooking the News, a daily column that pairs food with the news.