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" Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a deep, winelike character. "
Jonathan Miles
Fire
Crazy
Character
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" Of course, there's nothing wrong with deer burgers and venison chili, but with a little gusto, those stalwarts can go from satisfying to sublime. "
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Go
Chili
Deer
" Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing. "
Jonathan Miles
Victorian
Beaches
Pink
" A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes. "
Jonathan Miles
Colors
Gray
Eyes
" Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays. "
Jonathan Miles
Like
Missing
Song
" The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter. "
Jonathan Miles
Give
Bathroom
Mirror
" Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence. "
Jonathan Miles
Think
Fried
Golden
" Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked. "
Jonathan Miles
Few
Whole
Things
" Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America. "
Jonathan Miles
Mint
America
Cocktail
" Dry rubs are as integral to downhome barbeque as smoke. "
Jonathan Miles
Integral
Rubs
Smoke
" For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel. "
Jonathan Miles
Task
Wild
Nothing
" Vitello tonnato is a classic dish from Italy's Piedmont region that, frankly, sounds patently insane: veal slices dressed in a creamy sauce made from canned tuna and capers. The brain may say no, but the mouth disagrees. "
Jonathan Miles
Mouth
Say
May
" I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights. "
Jonathan Miles
Lights
Know
Find
" Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me. "
Jonathan Miles
Me
See
Village
" A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew - often served, like chipped beef, over toast - that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s. "
Jonathan Miles
Over
Like
Game
" For most of the competitors, winning the Dakar has little to do with the standings on the final day and everything to do with making it to the final day. "
Jonathan Miles
Little
Winning
Day
" The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. "
Jonathan Miles
May
Stop
Us
" There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye. "
Jonathan Miles
Eye
Moon
Mess
" For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely. "
Jonathan Miles
Destroy
Alcohol
Substance
" The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them - an admittedly minor slice - are shaded with the elements of high art. "
Jonathan Miles
Fight
Good
Best
" The South's cuisine is often likened to gumbo - a thick and bubbling melange, spiked with a little bit of this, a little bit of that - yet the metaphor, like the dish, comes from West Africa. "
Jonathan Miles
Like
Metaphor
Little
" I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint. "
Jonathan Miles
Saint
Calling
Him
" Driving a race car isn't too far a cry from driving any other sports car, but driving one through Africa in the middle of the night offers a wide scree of new sensations. "
Jonathan Miles
Sports
Car
Driving
" David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton. "
Jonathan Miles
Film
Adaptation
Hour
" After a solid day of fishing, I'm craving something hearty. That's where a jug of buttermilk comes in. Poaching fish in buttermilk yields the luscious texture and pure flavor, but with a more substantial richness and a poaching liquid you'll want to lap up with a spoon. "
Jonathan Miles
Fish
Day
You
" Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food. "
Jonathan Miles
Sad
Bad
Always
" For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition. "
Jonathan Miles
Long
Character
Tradition
" Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors. "
Jonathan Miles
Game
You
Soup
" I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life. "
Jonathan Miles
Journalism
Life
Proud
" An early remedy for malaria called for tossing the sufferer, Br'er Rabbit-style, into a prickly bush; in his hasty retreat, went the thinking, he might leave the fever behind. Orally-administered cobwebs were also deemed effective. "
Jonathan Miles
Behind
Early
Leave
" With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily. "
Jonathan Miles
Yellow
Fat
Night