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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!,
Category: literature
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.
On cats
→ Read morewhile talking about animals seems easy, a thorough analysis on cats is a nightmare. let us see the dogs. stereotypes about dogs are more clear-cut: common sense conceptualize them as long standing markers of faithfullness, accuracy, and addiction to well known spaces.
What I’ve been reading
I’ve started many books and haven’t finished yet most of them…, but slowly and steadily, mainly during my many & long forthcoming travels (NB: Transylvania, here I come!), I’ll get there…
Anyway: a book I’ve just finished is Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch” (wiki link; audio link with Hornby answering questions about the book).
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