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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 5-7, 2005 The Park Record A-10 U.S. health care keeps hearts healthy MARKETPLACE Blind Dog offers food-wine classes U.S. heart attack patients survive longer than Canada's will give good insight." said Penny. Recent classes have included the vintners from Ravenswood Winery (on Halloween, when guests showed up in costume) and Perrier Jouet (in November). By MATT JAMES In addition to larger wineries, Of The Record staff such as Ravenswood and Jouet, Few subjects can be more the classes have included smaller daunting than wines. It's even a wineries like von Strasser, which subject that can be hard to learn Penny said produces only about about; a person needs to find 5,000 cases a year. tastings and seek information out Occasionally, when the wines at those events. Otherwise, it's are not available in Utah, the hard to get much hands on expe- Kinseys work with the winery rience with wines and wine and reps and the UDABC to help food pairings - at least without a them get into the state. lot of sometimes costly trial and "We find the stuff and Derek error. really tries to work with the But the Blind Dog Restaurant reps," said Penny. "Derek is very good about can offer some help. The restaurant offers wine and food pairing introducing new wines to peocourses featuring specific wine ple," she noted. makers through its Blind Dog For the classes, each wine is Grill Culinary and Wine School. paired with a dinner course. The "We get to meet a lot of wine- Kihseys choose the courses makers; we get to travel to winer- which they discuss with the wineies,'1 said Penny Kinsey, owner makers - and prepare the meals and executive chef at Blind Dog. for the classes. "We thought we'd like to let our Past class subjects and meal clients meet the winemakers." themes have included pairing The small classes, which are wines with grilled food, pairing held approximately once a month wines with sushi and many othfor most of the year, include a ers. dinner specifically designed to Each class usually has about complement the featured wine- 20 participants, contributing to a makers wines and a chance to friendly, intimate atmosphere. converse with that winemaker "It's not a bunch of wine snobs," and the other class participants. emphasized Penny. "It's a pretty eclectic group." The biggest hurdle for the class initially was finding a legal she said. Those who attend range way to bring in the winemakers from 20-somcthings to older couand allow them to serve their ples, she noted. The common interest and subject matter - of wines. "We wanted to be able to do wine - combine to make the class wine dinner like they do all over a friendly affair. "It ends up being more like a the country," said Penny. UTAH HOMES AND GARDEN Utah alcohol law normally dinner party than a regimented Penny Kinsey, owner and executive chef of Blind Dog Restaurant not class," said Penny. prevents winemakers from using their product to supply such an "We want it to feel like you're only introduces new wines, but also the winemakers to customers. event, as it could be considered a coming to our home and we're promotional event. To make sure cooking dinner," she concluded. offered a decent value, consider- take that air of hoity-toityness the classes followed the letter of With that in mind. Penny said ing that occasionally over the away." the law, the Kinseys worked with Blind Dog would cap the classes course of the dinner $150 bottles The next wine and food semithe UDABC to obtain a before they grew too large. of wine might be served - as was nar will be after the Park City "Scientific and Education Special "I don't want to go over 40 the case with the Perrier Jouet Culinary, Wine and Ski Classic, Permit" which certified them and people." she said. Such a number, class. The classes are usually a which is happening Feb. 10-13 their classes as legal, educational she noted, would likely be the break-even proposition, accord- and is sponsored by Blind Dog. forums for wine education. most people the classes could ing to Penny. The next class will likely be held So far, the events, which have handle while preserving their All things considered the at the end of February or the been running for about three intimate nature. Kinseys hope the classes can help beginning of March. More inforyears, have been tremendous sucThe classes are individually give people a greater apprecia- mation about the class's subject cesses. The Kinseys invite wine- priced, but usually average about tion for different types of wine will be posted on the Blind Dog's makers thcykiraw,^pnes'that are $100 a person. The price includes and food pairings and make the website. To find the information, very personable and fun," as the full dinner and all the wines world of wine more accessible. go to www.blinddoggrill.com, and Penny said. served. "Wine is very intimidating," click on "Edibles," or call 655Penny noted the classes said Penny. "We're just trying to 0800. "It's pretty much who we think A restaurant gives diners an educated taste Heart attack patients in the United States are more likely to survive longer than those in Canada in part because Americans undergo more revascularization procedures, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "The more conservative pattern of care in Canada might have a detrimental effect on survival," said lead author Padma Kaul, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. In the United States, heart attack patients are more likely than those in Canada to be treated with an aggressive revascularization approach -- cither angioplasty or bypass surgery -- than with a conservative approach, which includes clot-busting therapy- Researchers investigated the difference in death rates between U.S. and Canadian patients up to five years after having a heart attack. They reviewed death rate data for 23,105 U.S. and 2,898 Canadian heart attack patients enrolled in the early 1990s for the Global Utilization of StTeptokinase and t-PA for Occluded Coronary Arteries study (GUSTO-I trial). "In a study published previously, at one year after their heart attack, U.S. patients had better functional and quality of life outcomes and only a very small survival advantage (0.4 percent) compared with Canadian patients." Kaul said. "The five-year death rate was 19.6 percent among U.S. patients and 21.4 percent among Canadian patients. After adjusting for differences in patient characteristics, we found that Canadian patients' risk for dying was 17 percent higher compared to U.S. patients. But once we adjusted for whether patients had revascularization procedures or not, that difference disappeared. So, the higher death rate in Canada was explained by the dif- ference in revascularization rates." In the hospital after heart attack, people in the United States were almost three times more likely to have a revascularization procedure than were Canadian patients. Almost one-third (30.4 percent) of patients in the United States had angioplasty after heart attack, versus 11.4 percent in Canada. More than 13 percent of patients studied in the U.S. group had bypass surgery, versus 4.0 percent of patients in Canada. "While the United States and Canada share a common border, these two countries differ substantially in how they organize, deliver and pay for health care," Kaul said. "In Canada's regionalized system, availability of cardiac catheterization and revascularization services is restricted to selected tertiary care centers. It is therefore not surprising that Canada uses substantially fewer invasive procedures compared to the United States. In contrast, evidence-based medicine use has been shown to be consistently higher in Canada compared with the United States. In our study, a higher percentage of Canadian patients were discharged on beta blocker therapy (62.3 percent) compared to the U.S. patients (52.9 percent)." Researchers said more research is needed to confirm these results. They conducted this study in a select clinical trial population and it reflects practice patterns in the early 1990s. Since then, rates of revascularization procedures in Canada have increased significantly. Medical management of patients with heart attacks also has improved tremendously. "While we cannot ignore these findings because there are still significant differences in revascuiarization rates between the U.S. and Canada, we need to extend our examination to differences between the countries at a population-level over more current time periods before major policy recommendations are made," Kaul said. "These studies would be of global interest as revascularization rates in many European countries are lower than in Canada." business@parkrecord.com Parental Guide #27 Do lou K^nc^^^^neveTais •r *jk '^iiMU/- ^'?''S'^^I-'-'''! • -5 i , . Is? 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