I love the Irish. They have great ale, good cheese and onion slices. We went to the city this weekend and had beers at McSorley's, my favorite American ale house. Mmmm.
In other news, the Coen brothers and Cormac McCarthy gave a joint interview recently. I haven't been able to find footage of it, but you can read a transcript (not sure if it's the whole thing) here, and the photo has the most Norman Rockwell-ish light I've seen in some time.
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As they say in Germany:
"Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebelang!"
vergessen das Wein, Bier ist die reale Sache!!!
"A liquor for drinking is made of barley or other grain, and fermented into a certain resemblance to wine. The dwellers on the river-bank also buy wine. Their food is of a simple kind, consisting of wild fruit, fresh game, and curdled milk. They satisfy their hunger without elaborate preparation and without delicacies. In quenching their thirst they are equally moderate. If you indulge their love of drinking by supplying them with as much as they desire, they will be overcome by their own vices as easily as by the arms of an enemy."
-- Tacitus, Germania
"They spoke of wine, but it was beer-mugs, not glasses, that jostled each other on the tables."
---Patrick Leigh Fermor, "Up the Rhine"
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