2 Links For You

Bush’s Parting Fart on France Smells Stronger than the Roquefort
Our wine steward, Bill Talbott, threw this Washington Post article on my desk about a week ago and I just read it.
Whereas children learn to share belongings, politicians have reversed the psychology and have discovered that if you won’t play with my toys, we refuse to play with yours. 
Is the US beef industry really suffering from France’s decree? Yeah, right!
Though surely mostly to boost their own industry, we should only have such an initiative to eliminate hormones in raising cattle.
To pick out this small, artisinal village is about as stupid an initiative as Freedom Fries. Hopefully our new administration can straighten this out… I’m a believer.

The Mozzarella Maker
This is a fantastic slide show series the NY Times is running on some of their more unique – but less heralded – citizens. If the link doesn’t bring you right to her, look for the ‘Mozzarella Maker’ posted Sept. 5th. You should fall instantly in love with her as I did.
From my present vantage point, I will have to be peeled away from my stoves and dragged into the freezer until the dinner rush is over and the coroner can be called to take me away. I only hope my ideals, passions and faculties are as much with me as they are with Georgiana! To quote one of my favorite unheralded Neil Young songs:
‘…with your chrome heart shining in the sun, long may you run’