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Pinot Noir: The Heartbreak Grape

Pinot Noir: The Heartbreak Grape

Pale does not mean feeble. While researching this piece, over lunch at Scott’s Richmond I found an excellent illustration in Yorkshire grouse from H.G. Walter, served with butternut squash purée and sliced cabbage: richly flavoured, yet given lift rather than weight. Chef Tom Fraser had bypassed the usual bread sauce, parfait and game chips. ‘Always seems strange to me eating grouse this time of year with the traditional additions… especially with the heat we’ve had recently,’ he says. ‘Tried to lighten it up a bit.’ With such a dish, reach for a slightly chilled Pinot with tea leaf, earth and woodland notes, rather than sweet fruit or emphatic oak. Source link

A Hilarious ‘SNL’ Sketch About Heartbreak Goggles

A Hilarious ‘SNL’ Sketch About Heartbreak Goggles

With time, a breakup can become an edifying event in one’s life. The immediate aftermath of a split tends to be less clear, a hazy maelstrom that can involve medicinal tubs of ice cream, insomnia by way of intrusive thoughts, and an aversion to wearing anything other than sweats. But a fresh breakup can also be a warped lens through which everyday occurrences can be newly interpreted: It’s capable of transforming, say, an innocuous song playing over the speakers at CVS into a private soundtrack that speaks directly to one’s loss. It can cause rote interactions to feel like personal taunts, or lead one to read deeply into something that isn’t quite true. The peculiarities of these heartbreak goggles fueled a zany Saturday Night Live sketch, a standout from last night’s solid episode that saw Olivia Rodrigo doing double duty as host and musical guest. In “My Ex,” Rodrigo played a woman named Brianna who tried to make her ex jealous at a party by appearing to flirt with someone else; he did the same, …