День писателей
Продолжим. Но в совершенно иную сторону. Кто такой Бартон Андерсон я, кажется, слышал до сегодняшнего дня, но ничего от него никогда не читал. Тут он завёл себе блог на гугловском блогспоте и за пару дней накатал ещё больше знаков, чем томский товарищ. Но какие "знаки"... Местами аз прослёзывался :-)
«Get real. The free-lance adventure has comprised thirty-five years of scraping together funds to finance a family, homes, college tuitions, research, travel, fiscal bumbles, lawsuits, and the mandatory ex-pat visits to far-away relatives. Forget vacations. I might have tried more gainful pursuits, but never got around to it. Too busy meeting deadlines, I suppose».
«After cracking Julia Child’s weights-and-measures codes for boeuf bourguignon and bouillabaisse-risking a crise de nerfs in a cramped Paris kitchen to conceive the best versions of those dishes I’ve tasted-I swore off recipes forever. I’ve since played it by nose the Italian way, sniffing out the best ingredients at hand, preferably home grown, while holding the cooking to a respectful minimum».
«Obsessed with omniscient numbers, people sometimes seem to forget that wine’s main role is to provide enjoyment-where, in times past, it was a basic nutrient used prevalently for medicinal and religious purposes. Yet, even in the old days, wine was exalted by those who knew it as the paragon of pleasures of the table and the noblest expression of man’s mastery over things that grow».
«If, in the beginning, I’d imagined that one day the most important figure in wine would be a taster, a rater, I might have chosen to explore more venerable subjects of interest to me, such as archeology or architecture. The biographer called Parker “the Emperor of Wine,” concluding that he has a “unique semi-divine tasting ability.” Wow. As the boss of bosses of production, commerce, and consumption, Godfather might be more to the point. Or, in a not so different sense, Big Brother».
Описание дегустации Chianti Rufina and Barbaresco в 2009 просто шикарно. Живо себе представил. Слава Богу мне лично редко приходится на такое смотреть :-).
Кстати, интересно, что я "пришёл в вино", когда Андерсон оттуда ушёл, но его взгляды мне гораздо ближе, чем паркеро-вайнерчуковские (хотя баллы приходится регулярно ставить, даже если и "тильке для сэбэ"), которые за эту дюжину лет как раз взяли верх. И мне нравится, как он пишет, несмотря на то, что он американец. Осталось понять, какова доза "антипаркеризма", приведшая к такому восприятию :-).
«Get real. The free-lance adventure has comprised thirty-five years of scraping together funds to finance a family, homes, college tuitions, research, travel, fiscal bumbles, lawsuits, and the mandatory ex-pat visits to far-away relatives. Forget vacations. I might have tried more gainful pursuits, but never got around to it. Too busy meeting deadlines, I suppose».
«After cracking Julia Child’s weights-and-measures codes for boeuf bourguignon and bouillabaisse-risking a crise de nerfs in a cramped Paris kitchen to conceive the best versions of those dishes I’ve tasted-I swore off recipes forever. I’ve since played it by nose the Italian way, sniffing out the best ingredients at hand, preferably home grown, while holding the cooking to a respectful minimum».
«Obsessed with omniscient numbers, people sometimes seem to forget that wine’s main role is to provide enjoyment-where, in times past, it was a basic nutrient used prevalently for medicinal and religious purposes. Yet, even in the old days, wine was exalted by those who knew it as the paragon of pleasures of the table and the noblest expression of man’s mastery over things that grow».
«If, in the beginning, I’d imagined that one day the most important figure in wine would be a taster, a rater, I might have chosen to explore more venerable subjects of interest to me, such as archeology or architecture. The biographer called Parker “the Emperor of Wine,” concluding that he has a “unique semi-divine tasting ability.” Wow. As the boss of bosses of production, commerce, and consumption, Godfather might be more to the point. Or, in a not so different sense, Big Brother».
Описание дегустации Chianti Rufina and Barbaresco в 2009 просто шикарно. Живо себе представил. Слава Богу мне лично редко приходится на такое смотреть :-).
Кстати, интересно, что я "пришёл в вино", когда Андерсон оттуда ушёл, но его взгляды мне гораздо ближе, чем паркеро-вайнерчуковские (хотя баллы приходится регулярно ставить, даже если и "тильке для сэбэ"), которые за эту дюжину лет как раз взяли верх. И мне нравится, как он пишет, несмотря на то, что он американец. Осталось понять, какова доза "антипаркеризма", приведшая к такому восприятию :-).