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The Art of Cocktail Hour
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when affections glow and valor is reborn.” This beautiful line is the greatest in Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour, at once capturing the romance and the sublime of this everyday routine that is anything but mundane.
Feelings That Cannot Be Understood: Formula One and the Edge
Hunter S. Thompson once said there’s no honest way to explain the edge because “the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Matters of Taste: Food is More Than Fuel
It was Julia Child, who taught me the distinction – and what a teacher she was! 6 feet and 2 inches of culinary inspiration. Blithe, bombastic, haphazard, endearing. “People who love to eat,” she said, “are always the best people”.
