Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
