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Joe himself remained the same as ever, picking his early fruit and laying it out in crates, making jam from windfalls, pointing out wild herbs and picking them when the moon was full, collecting bilberries from the moors and blackberries from the railway banking, preparing chutney from his tomatoes, piccalilli from his cauliflowers, lavender bags for sleeplessness, wintergreen for rapid healing, hot peppers and rosemary in oil and pickled onions for the winter. And, of course, there was the wine
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― Blackberry Wine
― Blackberry Wine
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She hadn't had a bite of her dinner. I'd even curled the pasta into a little linguine nest in the center of each bowl.
My mother's was still perfect and round and cold. The sauce had darkened.
"This is delish," she said. "But it needs red wine. I tell you because I love you and you should know for the future."
She went on about deglazing and how it brings out the earthy taste of the onions and never use wine you wouldn't drink yourself and a young, robust wine is what you use in red sauces, not
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― Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
― Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
