d r i n k s t e r: PIN-UPS: PASSIVE DINNER AT THE VICTORY

“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”

DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)

17 October 2011

PIN-UPS: PASSIVE DINNER AT THE VICTORY

4 comments:

Gabriella P said...: Did you eat any food Philip?; October 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM
DRINKSTER said...: After the usual Vic vittles, which are always a lot further up the epicurean ladder than your usual pub tucker, to accompany the port, we ate slices of Tilly's world-record fruitcake with cream. At about 0230 hrs this morning, Peter, one of our member, messaged from the Old World that he was fondly remembering that fruit cake, in a place he knows will be devoid of such wonders.; October 19, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Old Spag said...: What the #@&% was in that Settlement fizz? Was it ok? Cork?; October 19, 2011 at 12:31 PM
DRINKSTER said...: It was undisgorged Semillon, under a crown seal. The cork wafer under the crown was soggy and falling to bits, but there was no discernible taint. It had been very well-cellared, and clarified perfectly after a few days standing. The mousse was perfect; the wine chalky and lemony and very powerfully-flavoured. Like much bigger than your 30 yo Hunter Semi: boisterous! Bacchus bless old Enzo!; October 19, 2011 at 1:15 PM

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A.J. Liebling,

war correspondent,

New Yorker,

Algiers,

January 1942.

“Ale, especially that made from barley, clogs the sinews, causes headache and congestion of the head, yet it overstimulates the action of the kidneys, and, when drunk to excess, lowers the temperature. That, however, which is brewed from wheat, and is flavoured with mint and parsley, is judged better for everybody. Still, in the case of persons exposed to the sun’s heat, in feverish conditions and sultry weather, its use is inadvisable.”

From The Science Of Dining – A Medieval Treatise on the Hygiene of the Table and the Laws of Health, translated from the Latin by Arthur S. Way D. Lit, MacMillan, 1936. Previous translation The Schoolmaster, 1583. Original text from Mohammed ibn Zakariya al Razi, Arabic medical writer (865-925AD).

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17 October 2011

PIN-UPS: PASSIVE DINNER AT THE VICTORY

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