Word: vino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germantown section of the City of Brotherly Love. "When things get too violent," explains Robert, "Mama has to come in from the kitchen to mediate." There is nothing, they say, like Mama's eggs in purgatorio (fried eggs smothered in sautéed tomatoes) and a spot of vino to cool a heated brow...
...demon who heaves up hairily out of millennial memory once every year and incites all Agrigento to resume the prehistoric and obscene religion of carnival. As carnival impends, an imminence like electricity waits in the air, an itching in the mind invites convulsion. Convulsion begins: a Bacchic ecstasy of vino nero, roaring scooters, rock 'n' roll. Howard, a tidy Nordic, draws back in distaste. Sarah, a subliminal Mediterranean, is drawn toward delirium. One morning, imagining her intentions innocent, she lets a young bull of a Sicilian kiss...
From time to time, they open their eyes a slit, reach for a hot glass of Glühwein (in Austria or Switzerland), vin chaud (in France) or vino brûlé (in Italy...
Even the fine-wine producers will admit that some of the cheap table wines are sound value for their price. Gallo's Paisano, for example, is a passable vin ordinaire, even by French standards, and so is Petri's Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines...
Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...