CRAB FEST -ACT TWO: A Crab at the Dentist
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
‘Pour-Soi’ & ‘En-Soi’
Crabs even found their way into Sartre’s formative work on existentialism,...
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." -Grimod de la Reynière
Crustaceans and Alsatians
One evening, a...
On The Bench
I dined in esteemed company last evening, in the private room at the rear of purveyor of fine wine and bon vivant Mr. Vibol Thach’s new wine salon. Vibol is a gentleman...
Where is Charm in the Afternoon? (with the Monday Angel)
High above an ancient river, its source far from here, up in the world’s tallest mountains, I am swept away on a cloud of euphoric,...
Happy Birthday Frankie
Frank Baroudi is one of life’s gentlemen and a true connoisseur. Whether fine wine, whisky, cognac, food, cigars, travel, art, or just living life well, Frankie has a pretty high-calibre ‘A game’....
DUCKHORN
The Duckhorn Winery is tucked between the Napa River and the Silverado Trail, north of Saint Helena. Dan Duckhorn and his wife Margaret first planted vines here in 1976 and spent almost fifty years...
Breakfast with Vibol
Vibol Thach is a resolute and passionate man of wine, a proud Cambodian who lived much of his early life in France, (where he still visits regularly) before returning to Cambodia...
For Canard
I absolutely adore ducks; I’ve nibbled on their webs and sucked on their tongues in Chinese palaces. I’ve eaten their livers “with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” in Italian cucinas....
