WINK!

5 course chef’s tasting menu

dayboat scallops on potato purée with chanterelle mushrooms and veal demi
Wine: 2005 Rousset Crozes-Hermitage
bison tartare with potato crisp and caper aïoli
Wine: 2007 Marchesi Incisa della Rochetta Grignolino d’Asti, Italy
(Courtesy course): shaved oregon black truffle on homemade fettucini
Wine: I don’t remember, but it was Italian, and it was yummy
crisp duck leg confit [...]

NPR: John Henry Faulk’s Christmas Story

This is probably my favorite Christmas story ever.
The day after Christmas a number of years ago, I was driving down a country road in Texas. And it was a bitter cold, cold morning. And walking ahead of me on the gravel road was a little bare-footed boy with non-descript ragged overalls and a makeshift sleeved [...]

A Poem for Christmas: The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“SON,” said my mother,
When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
And not a rag have I.
“There’s nothing in the house
To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
Nor thread to take stitches.
“There’s nothing in the house
But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp [...]