hlsteed: "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."
hlsteed: "If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."
hlsteed: He was there for the prosciutto...
hlsteed: "Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
hlsteed: "You have to have it in your blood, you have to grow up with the soil underneath your nails, the smell of the grapes in the air that you breathe...