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...molecules of brie and stilton, violently bombarding your person like so many solar particles. Arrayed on the shelves, in perfect storage conditions, are golden wheels whose names speak of rainswept farms, dark cellars and expense: Ardrahan Large, Innes Log, Stinking Bishop, Ticklemore Goat. If you want to make a meal of it right there and then, you can pull up a chair and choose a bottle of wine-not in the walk-in cabinet itself, but at a large communal dining table just outside, where vintages beckon from wall-mounted racks. (Should you be up for a real debauch, this...
...there are 2-year-old twins-are in bed by 11 at the latest, leaving him one hour to spend with them if he's lucky. At the same time as seeing to them, an exhausted Wong also tries to relax and have his evening meal. This is on one of his better parenting days. Half the time, he isn't at home at all, because his job constantly takes him to China. "I'm gone half the year," he says. "I feel like I don't give the children enough care...
Einstein's greatest intellectual stimulation came from a poor student who dined with his family once a week. It was an old Jewish custom to take in a needy religious scholar to share the Sabbath meal; the Einsteins modified the tradition by hosting instead a medical student on Thursdays. His name was Max Talmud, and he began his weekly visits when he was 21 and Einstein...
...Take for example the doubles duo of Harvard tennis co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin. This one-two punch delivers some extra ‘umph’ during Passover thanks to matza. “It’s really funny to go to pre-meal dinners with the team,” Valkin said. “Everyone’s carbo-loading, and Scott and I are eating matza and potatoes.” He added that, “Sometimes, at the end of the week, you get a bit tired.” Denenberg...
...driver. You should leave timings to God." When I replied that God and I had different deadlines, and that anyway I wasn't a believer, that only confirmed Bishaq's low opinion of me. After that, my every request to speed up or please, please skip just one meal was met by his invoking my "godlessness...