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Posted in Drinking, Lessons in food and drink on Nov 27th, 2009
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was given an ‘Introductory Wine Course’ at the Prince Wine Store for my birthday. This was, indeed, a very exciting gift. I have spent the past three Tuesday nights learning about wine – something which, although I drink a lot of, I know incredibly little about. The [...]
Posted in Lessons in food and drink on Nov 13th, 2009
I had a magnificent Great Aunt, named Ruthie, who lived at Lorne on Victoria’s southwest coast. Her house was an imposing white weatherboard, hidden behind a dense hedge, across the road from the beach. In her sun room she had scripted over a doorway, “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem”: It is not by some idle [...]
