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I’ve grown up with good
food and good wines.
mom says our culture
would be seriously
diminished without our
ability to integrate
food and wine into a
single aesthetic
statement. it would be
unthinkable –
like music without art,
donna without karen,
calvin without klein. ‘oh,
is that like
mac without intosh, or le
mans without
sebring?’ i asked. ‘you’ll
have to talk
to dad about sebring!’ she
sighed. (poor
mom! i always do that to
her. Must be my
austenian gift for irony.
You know – smiling
at the very wrong time!)