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Jay McInerney’s “Bacchus and me“, one of the best books I’ve read within the past two years or so. Informative, witty, provocative (even for me: I clearly disagree with the author in several places!,
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Kevin Murphy Fan Club
I had already a quote for this week, so the following will be the quote for the weekend:
Kevin Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
Read all 10 top facts about Kevin Murphy :-).
Oysters
→ Read moreYou start with an oyster. You put it inside a large olive. Then you put the olive inside an ortolan (a wee bird called ‘the garden bunting’, in case you are among the underprivileged), and the ortolan inside a lark, and so on and so on.
McInerney’s wine world
→ Read moreYou probably know, even if you have never tasted them, that Lafite is synonymous with elegance, Mouton with power. Lafite is fragrant and ethereal, Mouton loud and fleshy. Lafite is Leonardo to Mouton’s Michelangelo.