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Two Perfect Meals; Two Great Wines

Two Perfect Meals; Two Great Wines

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Fredric Koeppel
Jun 07, 2008
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Where food is concerned, astonishment does not equal happiness. Great cooking does not require prestidigitation but thoughtful consideration of the virtues of simplicity, intensity and inevitability. (Apply this concept to making wine, too.) I would take a perfect roasted chicken any day over the Frankensteinian kitchen feats that transform sea urchins …

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