Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there is the wine. Someone who was bred in New Jersey doesn't naturally develop an affinity for the grape. But even a brief residence in Northern California transforms the newcomer into a wine aficionado. Now I can't get enough of those Zinfandels, Syrahs and Pinots. Salut, Napa and Sonoma...
...these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity in. One person heeding that message is Tom Monaghan, the centimillionaire founder of the Domino's Pizza chain (1990 revenues: nearly $2.7 billion). Monaghan, an architecture aficionado and leading collector of Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts, has decided to abandon his $5 million dream house. Even though it was one- third completed, Monaghan halted construction of the 22,000-sq.-ft. mansion in Ann Arbor, Mich., which he had intended to be the keystone in a development of exceedingly expensive mansions designed by eminent architects. The pizza tycoon, who is shifting his attention toward...
...Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly (Knopf; $19.95). Good fresh sausages are available in such variety and quality all over the U.S. that the let's-eat-soon crowd will wonder why they should spend all day stuffing sausages when they can simply buy them. But for the real sausage aficionado, this is the book...
...just that, was published in 1981. He is / now editing a book on Lawrence Park, the turn-of-the-century artists' colony in Bronxville, N.Y., where he grew up and lives today. Our renaissance lawyer is also an avid bird watcher, gardener, art buff and rock-'n'-roll aficionado: his raunchy rendition of Blue Christmas, Elvis-style, is the highlight of the law department's annual lunch...