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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I read that one half-way through and realized that I had already read it when it first came out.
Jeff Wrangler:
Somehow I got through the M.F.K. Fisher article, but what's the big deal about mashed potatoes?
I don't think I want to bother with anything else in that issue.
It's weird. You'd think I'd remember Kelefa Sanneh's article on scotch. It wasn't from too long ago, yet I had no memory of it at all, even after reading it now. However, it was interesting because since its original publication, I had learned to know what Islay scotch is, and to appreciate its smoky taste. especially Laphroaig.
Front-Ranger:
I haven't developed a taste for it, and because of the wildfires this year, I'm not even interested in the thought of it. I have very plebian tastes when it comes to Scotch. The best one I've tasted was Dewars and that only on Rabbie Burns' birthday.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 12, 2021, 06:15:38 pm ---I read that one half-way through and realized that I had already read it when it first came out.
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I believe I did, too, but I often read essays twice (there are several David Foster Wallace essays I've read at least three or four times). I never read Kitchen Confidential and probably won't get around to it, but Anthony Bourdaine was an interesting writer and person.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 13, 2021, 10:59:13 am ---I haven't developed a taste for it, and because of the wildfires this year, I'm not even interested in the thought of it. I have very plebian tastes when it comes to Scotch. The best one I've tasted was Dewars and that only on Rabbie Burns' birthday.
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I don't follow your connection between scotch and wildfires, but let be. Dewars is a perfectly acceptable/unexceptional blended scotch, very popular in bars--or at least it used to be.
But like the author said, blended scotches are gateway drugs. You start on them, but when you try single-malts, there's no going back.
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