Winemakers rating other winemaker's wines

[Todd Abrams]

originally posted by Jay Miller:

In my experience ice cream and shakes are the best way to go with durian.

Picked this up at our new Asian Supermarket today. Not quite as pleasant as the pandan ice cream I bought a couple weeks ago. It tastes kind of like a coconut, leek, beef broth, banana, and mango ice cream.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Yet it carries the weight of her reputation/celebrity.

That's why I don't read Jane Austen or Dostoevsky. Vladimir Nabokov told me not to.

Don't read Nabokov.

I got curious and discovered he eventually came around, going so far as to teach Mansfield Park (not my favorite).

But I quite understand if you want to hold by his earlier opinion regarding female authors:

"I dislike Jane, and am prejudiced, in fact, against all women writers. They are all in another class. Could never see anything in Pride and Prejudice"

A singular anomaly.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

For such a great writer, he was a terrible blowhard. Strong Opinions is basically unreadable.

Also, his inability to listen to music is weird.