Dear Feastlings,
I know it doesn’t look like much is happening, but if you look behind the curtain, you’ll see that I haven’t gotten the wine tasting posted until now because, among other issues, refrigerator number three in a series of failing refrigerators is currently pulling up the covers on its deathbed. This weekend it’ll be hauled outside for one last-ditch attempt to powerwash its innards, and we’ll give its thermostat a gentle thump and see whether it lurches to life as if we’d sprayed Narcan into its nostrils for one last go before it expires.
The tasting, though, is posted, here,
and will give your Saturday substance. Then we’ll focus this Sunday and Monday on the things that have to be done while we’re closed- the refrigerator, the amplifier, and whatever else gives up the ghost under the pull of entropy.
Next, we’ll fidget with the Valentine’s Day and February menus and balance the weight of disappointing February guests with a shortfall of lobster bread pudding against the weight of the fact that even lobster claw and knuckle meat wholesales at $43 a pound these days, and is probably going to push upward as Maine’s waters warm.
That said, what do we have that’s likely to bring us an occasional speck of joy if not for good food and drink? That’s how I’ll be cheering myself up after I dig between my couch cushions for enough spare change to buy a third, and, I hope, final refrigerator, so I hope you’ll follow suit and consider cheering yourself here with a bite of root vegetables and a splash of Nebbiolo, or some other combination that speaks to you. And if not, I will anyhow.
Thanks, everyone, for joining us when you can.
Love,
Doug