Last week I attended a wine-tasting party. I’m new in the neighborhood and Brenda and Jeanne, two women down the block, have been warmly welcoming. Brenda was walking her white poodle when she knocked on my door and invited me. “It’s a group of really nice women. We talk, drink wine, have cheese and chocolates.” There would be someone to instruct us on the nuances of Cabernet.
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I once met the beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti . Well, meet is too strong a word. I was in San Francisco when I saw him in the window of a McDonalds, I rushed in, told him I thought he was a great poet, left before he even swallowed his bite of burger. I thought of Felinghetti today because it’s autumn and the trees in my yard, the quaking aspen and the sugar maple, are changing color. His line “too soon, too soon” (in the famous poem The Penny Candy Store Beyond the El) laments the changing of the season and end of youth.
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It doesn’t sound like an important family ritual, but when I call “taste test,” everyone drops whatever he or she is doing and comes into the kitchen. We meet at the counter, glasses or spoons at the ready.
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We have certainly been busy this summer, attending Food and Gift Shows! Each time I would pick up Jill and Tammy (before sunrise!) for our NY Trips, it would be like “Trains, Planes and Automobiles”; even though we never even got on a plane. I am just thankful that Tammy drove, so Jill and I could review notes. What is the most important thing to remember when packing for a Food or Gift Show? Only bring what you can carry!
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