Lunch in four phases

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
I'm waiting for the episode where Sharon joins CTU and teams up with Jack Bauer. It's called "24-Just Enough Time for Dinner."
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So instead of an 'imminent coup', there will be an 'imminent cous'?
 
originally posted by Bwood:
What I really like is the sweeping dramatic arc Chris has created with his characters "Brad Kane" and "Sharon Bowman," and now after years they are meeting (or have they already met before, I am a bit behind on my reading?). It's kind of like when Harry Bosch and Elvis Cole finally met up in LA.
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Their paths have crossed briefly, in the chapter about the cauliflower struggle, but I didn't want to draw focus away from the primary introduction and initial development of the Sharon Bowman character at that time, so what I've done is to take them to a new venue, with all the psychological baggage inherent in being away from familiar settings and constraints. The shift in locale opens up possibilities for new, freer behaviours in the Brad Kane character, who may have become a little shopworn at this point in the story.

I admit, though, the French classes have been kicking my ass. I may have to tone that angle down before I get in over my head.
 
Well, the wines are here, you aren't, ergo of course. Not opening them would be an insult to the winemaker.

Oh, and Brad Kane and his big toe say thanks for the tripe recommendation yesterday. He thoroughly enjoyed getting insulted, felt up and shot in the ass for 80 Euros by a hilarious French doctor.

Hmmm... Foillard...
 
Ooh, good work Chris. So you are doing 24! Here we have the rising real-time tension. I'm on the edge of my seat!
 
Just because Brad's bugging me to know: when does Elisha Cuthbert make an appearance?

Or, wait, is Brad playing Cuthbert's role in this? Because if so, I'm going to have to put off lunch.
 
I cannot even imagine Chloe O'Brian on this site.

Actually she might fit in with some of the more prickly discussions we've had in other threads.

She also could have added a preview function much sooner.
 
Now, it being 3pm, we realized that finding a wine bar open between meals in Paris is tantamount to finding a hunk of quartz in your refrigerator one morning. Thus the only solution was to speed over to Lavinia, which has comfortable all-day service in the upstairs wine bar.
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So I've heard...

Booted out of Legrand as it was closing, we realized we were only steps away from Willi's Wine Bar. There, at the bar, as I noshed through several tiny platefuls of fried leeks and freshly fried potato chips, we ordered the following.
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Aha! So, if one tarries long enough at lunch, one can then saunter over to Willi's for the "dinnertime" opening. I'll have to keep that in mind -- and see how Eurostar can accomodate it -- next time I'm in town.

Great selection of wines, Sharon. You seem to have taken to Syrah with a vengeance. I can't believe that you didn't try inflict more damage to the Kane palate, though: no searingly austere whites, for instance. You can do better, I know.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
I can't believe that you didn't try inflict more damage to the Kane palate, though: no searingly austere whites, for instance.
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I must pronounce for one and all that Bradley Kane "liked the finish" on 2004 Ulysse Collin Extra-Brut at dinner.

Of course, the rest of us liked the whole thing.

But still.
 
It's Coad's cinematic allusions that I find most fascinating. Clearly the Kane character is an ironic twist on Welle's most famous role, a kind of anti-Kane yet also similarly delusional. Meanwhile, Sharon Bowman like the astronaut in Kubrick's 2001 finds herself adrift in an unknown (unknowable?) future.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:

NV Selosse Ros

I've got a bottle of this, how do I know if it is the "Cistercian" bottling
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It would have to be the French version of the October 2008 disgorgement. The American version had higher dosage, and Anselme now prefers that to the French rendition. Earlier bottlings were not Cistercian, per the vigneron.

originally posted by Scott Kraft:
like the astronaut in Kubrick's 2001
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Scott, the fun thing is that in college my bff was named Hal.

Daisy, daisy...
 
And now for some pictures:

Sharon and Michel at Bistro Paul Bert.

Sharon, Michel & Kristina at Bistro Paul Bert.

Me and Kristina at Bistro Paul Bert.

Duck confit and lentils at Bistro Paul Bert.

Kiwi creme brulee at Bistro Paul Bert.

I enjoy a '00 Allemand- Cornas "Reynard" at Legrand Filles et Fils.

Michel has a I am so French moment at Legrand Filles et Fils.

Sharon can't get enough of the Allemand at Legrand Filles et Fils.

Sharon, Michel, me and Kristina at Willi's Wine Bar.

Michel poses while Sharon steals a whiff of Allemand from his glass at Willi's Wine Bar.

Michel does a good impression of my Chardonnay face at Kristina's.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by MLipton:
I can't believe that you didn't try inflict more damage to the Kane palate, though: no searingly austere whites, for instance.
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I must pronounce for one and all that Bradley Kane "liked the finish" on 2004 Ulysse Collin Extra-Brut at dinner.

Of course, the rest of us liked the whole thing.

But still.
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Are you sure he didn't say he "liked when it finished"? That seems more in character.

Probably an overzealous editor messing with Chris' text.
 
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