Corn and charred oaks

Alcohol history owes Evan Williams a squarer jiggle. In the allegorical dine tables where the posh cerebral suits decide what is and what isn’t a first-water whiskey, it always gets this thwack: It is not a scotch. Though the bourbon harmlessly beams at you with a youth’s blissful jollity, the two of them will want you to hum your favorite song, watch your pet movie, or suchlike. Even a three or four of them will not send your tongue and brains working separately of each other. Try it. Like a rich single malt, it has its own smack.

좋은 날

I am a poor food explorer and a worse food researcher. So when one of my clients mentioned that he wanted to taste some Korean food, my mind could not dig up any restaurant names. My office block on Broadway and 32^nd is believed to be the Mecca of Korean food. So, off we went, down for lunch. I took him to a fine-looking place right next to my building. No sooner did we place our order of Dak-gui, ( my brain had an option of either remembering the restaurant’s name or the dishes’- it chose the latter), a sort of charred chicken, and Saengsoeun gui, a kind of grilled fish, we were presented with an enormous range of complimentary hors d’oeuvres. There were pickles, pickly vegetables, vegetable pickles and the likes. Then there was some soup, which was tasty but was deceiving – could’nt tell the ribs from the intestines. In the end came some cinnamon syrup to freshen up our breath. Ok, the overall experience was good but it will take some time for me to forget the face of our waitress who knew that we knew nothing about what we had been doing there. I am not sure if everything that we ate from the table was for eating. I am not sure if we ate the right way or even that we had the right drink at the right hour – the dong dong ju, which ding-donged us. But I am sure I saw the waitress and the server boyfriend (it’s an assumption but I am an expert at this) smirk whenever their eyes met after meeting mine. We had good food. They had good fun. Everyone went home happy.

Everyday life #3

I always say that the 2 most honest places with the 2 most honest people of the moment at their 2 most honest moments are:

1. Your kitchen - when you are helping your wife clean the dishes after your guests have left and she tells you that your friend’s joke on which everyone laughed their hearts out was not only bad but silly and that your friend’s wife’s outfit was not only ill-fitting but gauche. You agree and say I love you darling.
2. Your friend’s car – when they are on their way back home after dinner at your place and he tells his wife that the food which they ate plates-full did not only look stale, it smelled like Rajpal Yadav in Bhootnath. His wife agrees and says I love you darling.

Whatever goes on before that, over food and wine is nothing but Time in action trying to lay the ground so that people can be a little honest after a little while.

Don’t think little of the ‘I love you’ part. It is another most honest moment….. honestyis thebestpolicy wise speaking

What will happen to Michelob?

Anheuser-Busch, the brewers of Budweiser, yesterday announced that it will buy over the outstanding 50 per cent stake in Crown Beers India that is at present held by Crown Group. Does it mean that any hopes of Michelob being available in India are drowned? I’d follow the deal.