The Critic Magazine

Gentleman of Médoc

● is the soul of diplomacy. What then is lunching? Its conscience? Admittedly in the modern world, a world of jogging and gyms, of water and salads, where the scales are watched as closely as the clock — and the time is weighed very closely, lunching has become something of a lost art, like courtly dancing

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