Italian Gift Baskets

The Key Element of the Italian Wine Gift Basket Kit

The writer of the following article has never purchased the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit. She did know a chemistry professor who deserved a gift basket with a bottle of wine. Unfortunately, the year that that Anna Jane Harrison became the first female president of the American Chemical Society, the writer was miles from Dr. Harrison’s home town of South Hadley, Massachusetts. The writer has since pursued a different way for honoring the accomplishments of her former chemistry professor. The writer does not plan to search for the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit.Although the events of August 28, 1944 gave hundreds of Europeans reason to rejoice, those Europeans did not look then for the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit. They used French wine to do their celebrating on that day.

On August 28, 1944, the allied troops marched into and took control of Paris. French citizens and those who had rescued them from the Nazis popped many bottles of wine on that day. During the sixty years since that celebration, both Americans and Europeans have found other reasons to acquire the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit.

In July of 1969, some residents of Houston, Texas no doubt looked for the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit. On July 21st, the people working at the NASA facility in Houston deserved to get a gift basket.  On that day, two American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, stepped onto the surface of the moon.

In October of 1978, administrators at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore deserved a gift basket that contained a bottle of wine. During that month, the Nobel committee in Sweden announced the winners of the Nobel in Medicine. Two Hopkins professors shared that honor with one other researcher.

That announcement gave to Hopkins an honor that had eluded it for some time. That was the first time that anyone from Hopkins received a Nobel Prize. Professors Hamm and Smith had earned the prestigious award by discovering restriction enzymes. That discovery had fired the development of molecular biology.

One year later the citizens of Baltimore enjoyed a very different sort of celebration. That year the Baltimore Orioles won the World Series. Earl Weaver gave the residents of Baltimore a nail-biting ending to the seventh game against the Pittsburg Pirates.

Citizens of both France and England had reason to search for the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit when the tunnel under the English Channel opened. That tunnel added motor vehicles to the list of transport vehicles that could carry one across the Channel. One wonders where the first bottle of wine was popped. Was it in France or in England?

On October 25, 2007, passengers on one airline had reason to bring on board the makings of an Italian wine gift basket kit. On that day, they rode on the inaugural flight of the world’s largest airplane. That flight took them from Singapore to Australia.

What will be the next big event to call for a gift basket and a bottle of wine? Will it be the opening of a new bridge, one at an exceedingly high elevation? Will it be for discovery of a cure for cancer or AIDS?

It might well be something that no one has ever considered within the realm of possibility.