To me, history. This is País, the grape brought to the New World by Spanish missionaries in the 1500s to make communion wine. It had many alibis as it spread from Chile (País) and Argentina (Criolla), Mexico (Mision) and California (Mission). Modern grape DNA research has identified ...
An example of today’s theme that I finally read last week is Barbara Kingsolver’s tour de forceDemon Copperhead, the 2022 coming-of-age story of a boy who faces poverty, the death of his parents, foster care, addiction, injury, and other enormous challenges. It’s uncanny how well a ...
“My life has gone rosy, again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years had been blighted by heartbreak and upheaval: a painful separation from her husband of two...
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Puerto Penasco, Mexico. Early in the morning, inside a white-walled compound sitting next to a busy two lane highway. I stood in a large outdoor shelter waiting for my toast to pop up in the toaster. Scanning over the Spanish labels on the butter, jelly, and peanut butter containers ...
It kind of irks me that Barstool founder Dave Portnoy has made himself the arbiter of all things good and bad in pizza. Not unlike our current political situation, he’s divided the pizza world into two camps: The good and the not-so-good. ...