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" The greatest meal of my life involved a Triscuit. "
Jonathan Miles
Involved
Meal
Life
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Behind
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Leave
" 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. "
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Long
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Tradition
" More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes. "
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Left
Cleaning
Over
" Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse. "
Jonathan Miles
Us
Worse
Most
" 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. "
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Mouth
Say
May
" Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? - but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it. "
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Lying
See
True
" It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles, wicked speed, and fighter-plane acrobatics, doves are more difficult to take down. "
Jonathan Miles
Duck
Me
Practice
" Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked. "
Jonathan Miles
Few
Whole
Things
" In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to the edge of the field, and the doves' breasts are grilled - usually swaddled in bacon, maybe with a jalapeno tucked inside - as the hunters tell and retell tales of the day's shooting. "
Jonathan Miles
Sometimes
Inside
End
" 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. "
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Me
See
Village
" You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic. "
Jonathan Miles
Car
Small
Traffic
" I guess I'm old-fashioned. "
Jonathan Miles
Old-Fashioned
Guess
" 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
" 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. "
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Task
Wild
Nothing
" 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
" 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
" Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where 'anything might happen.' "
Jonathan Miles
Young
City
Great
" Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now. "
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Now
Africa
Heart
" 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. "
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Sports
Car
Driving
" Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure. "
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Always
Pleasure
Civilization
" Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America. "
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Mint
America
Cocktail
" The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. "
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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. "
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Eye
Moon
Mess
" I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint. "
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Saint
Calling
Him
" 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. "
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Colors
Gray
Eyes
" Dry rubs are as integral to downhome barbeque as smoke. "
Jonathan Miles
Integral
Rubs
Smoke
" Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is, or as a skillet of cornbread that some venison sneaked into, which it also is. Either way, it's a simple and satisfying meal. "
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Think
You
Way
" The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter. "
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Give
Bathroom
Mirror
" Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair. "
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Time
Unfair
Song
" 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. "
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Lights
Know
Find