Max Hauser wrote:
> "This experience, in more modest form, has befallen many unsuspecting
> foreigners visiting a Russian house for the first time. When you find a
> table covered with beautiful dishes you naturally assume it to be the main
> meal. Too late you discover that soup with _piroshki_ and pork fed for
> weeks on Hungarian wine are waiting in the kitchen till appetites have been
> suitably stimulated.


Very nice article Max, and I hope you post more like it. A line in one
of your footnotes caught my eye. When I worked the crush at a winery
in Amador County in the late 70's, we had a neighbor that used to come
by and and pick up the must after pressing and take it back to his
place and feed his sheep with it. Unfortunately, I was never to taste
one of Mr. Rheinhart's animals. The feeling about the valley was that
they were -very- contented ewes and lambs. I did have some locally
raised pork which included a Fall diet of acorns, which was excellent,
but, there are plenty of other variables.

D.M.